Re: "Final" version of tty child frames

[Gerd Möllmann]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Jared Finder <jared@finder.org> writes:
>
>> On 2024-12-18 09:22, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> 
>>>>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>>>>> Cc: jared@finder.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  acorallo@gnu.org,
>>>>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rudalics@gmx.at
>>>>> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:39:07 +0100
>>>>>  > What I usually do is produce diffs for the merge, then use "C-x
>>>>> 4 a"
>>>>> > to generate the file/function names, and add a description.
>>>>> The diff I have, so I guess I'll give it a try, when the others
>>>>> agree.
>>>>> Will take a bit, probably. Should I post the result when I have it?
>>>> Feel free, it will probably flash out a few more issues.  I
>>>> actually
>>>> suggest to post some small portion first, to avoid the situation where
>>>> you do all of the job, only to discover that something's amiss or you
>>>> labored more than you had to.
>>> Thanks, will do that.
>>
>> I'll also spend a bit of time to get GPM's mouse input to make the
>> same transformations that Gerd added to xt-mouse.el.  It looks likely
>> very straightforward to do.
>>
>>   -- MJF
>
> Thanks!
>
> And attached is what I came up today, with the help of a lot of coffee.
> The changelog is a page worth of changelog entries, the diff is from
> what I created these. As introductory text I'd use
>
>   This changeset adds support for child frames on ttys.
>
>   The redisplay part is complete.  The frame-handling part supports
>   use-cases like Posframe, Corfu, and child frames acting like tooltips.
>   Other use-cases of child frames are not currently supported.  In
>   particular, trying to create minibuffer-only child frames on ttys will
>   signal an error.

Here's actually a change log for the whole diff

changelog.txt
Description: whole change log