Re: Question about minibuffer and child frames (Posframe)

[Po Lu]

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

> Hi Martin,
>
> I have a question about minibuffer handling with child frames. Actually,
> it's something that currently behaves differently on GUI and tty with
> Posframe, via Vertico-Posframe, plus consult-buffer and similar. Since
> I've looked at this for two hours today without being able to tell what
> I'm missing here, I thought I'd just ask if you, or anyone else, has an
> idea where to look.
>
> Here's what I see:
>
> On GUI, consult-buffer pops up a child frame, which has, AFAICT, a
> minibuffer at the top. The cursor is in that minibuffer. The minibuffer
> ih the parent frame looks inactive. There is no prompt or anything else.
> That's how it should be.
>
> With my new code on tty, the same child frame pops up, but this time the
> child frame's minibuffer contains a prompt and what I type is displayed
> there and so on, but it doesn't have a visible cursor. The parent
> frame's minibuffer this time contains the prompt and the cursor, too.
>
> Any idea what that could be?

Not Martin, but as I recall, posframe's "cursor" is actually emulated
by applying faces to SPC characters.