Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:39:27 +0530
> From: Vibhav Pant <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> >From what I can see, this would require the usage of a "tooltip-like"
> text editing interface, which should be easy to implement for Emacs
> builds using a windowing system

No, it's not easy.  Tooltip frames are very special frames, so
using it for general-purpose display, let alone for editing, will need
some tinkering with the internals in C.  Not rocket science, granted,
but not as easy as throwing together some mode in Lisp.