Re: Implementing child frames on terminal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  luangruo@yahoo.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   ibluefocus@outlook.com
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:07:34 +0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> >> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ibluefocus@outlook.com
> >> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:53:32 +0600
> >> 
> >> > (I also don't think child frames are the right basis for implementing
> >> > such popups: they will look ugly.  Emacs frames are not suited for
> >> > emulating GUI dialog widgets.)
> >> 
> >> What?  Completion popup is a misuse of child frame?  Then what its
> >> supposed to do?
> >
> > What is "it" in this case?
> >
> 
> Child frame.  What child frame is supposed to do?

Then I don't understand the question.  The obvious answer is "display
a child frame", but somehow I don't think this is the answer you were
waiting for.