Re: Question about minibuffer and child frames (Posframe)

[Gerd Möllmann]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

Thanks.

Can't find that in posframe.el, though. AFICT, it uses the cursor-type
frame parameter. Or maybe Veritco or Consult do something? Have to
look, but that would be super strange.

Also, another strange thing is that on GUI, the oarent frame's
minibuffer doesn't show anything, while on tty it also shows the
prompt (with cursor).