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Re: Selecting tooltip frames considered harmful


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Selecting tooltip frames considered harmful
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:41:28 +0200

> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:52:14 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> 
> (1) Ignore the message in message3_nolog (the ideal solution but maybe
>      too simplistic).
> 
> (2) Send the message to stderr instead (confusing for plain messages
>      and hardly suited for 'read-from-minibuffer').
> 
> (3) Give tooltip frames a minibuffer window of some other frame (with
>      the usual consequences when trying to delete that frame).
> 
> (4) Try to find a frame with a minibuffer and put the message there
>      (it might be tricky to find the most suited minibuffer here).
> 
> (5) Avoid that a tooltip frame gets selected (hardly feasible).
> 
> A similar solution should be found when reading from the minibuffer.
> 
> Suggestions welcome, martin

I think we should do (1) and document it.

Thanks.



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