I just wanted to let you all know that popper.el now comes in the edit-utils package. Popper is a package that hooks into temp-buffer-show-function and provides a nice pop-up temporary buffer showing behavior for completions, help, etc. Popper originally appeared in the ilisp package but became unmaintained and buggy and was dropped. I've taken over maintainance of the package for XEmacs and have largely re-written it at this point. I have improved the installation mechanism, fixed tons of bugs, and added support for the XEmacs world of variable-width and variable-height lines, modeline shadow, etc. I've added a number of new primitives to XEmacs 21.0 to support this. Anyway, I was hoping I could get some of you to try it, test it, and even get hooked on it. You'll want the version in edit-utils 1.23, which is designated version "2.40 XEmacs 1.4". You'll also want to be running XEmacs 21.0 b42 or later. Installation is as easy as M-x popper-install. If you decide you don't like it, M-x popper-unstall should completely unhook it and restore your environment. Once installed, temporary pop-ups will appear at the top of the current window shrunk to fit. Popper tries to avoid display jumps as much as possible so your text should remain in as close to the same place as possible when the pop-up is shown and hidden. C-z is the default popper prefix key and a few bindings are: C-z C-z, C-z C-1 : popper-bury-output, toggle showing the buffer C-z C-v : popper-scroll-output C-z M-v : popper-scroll-output-back C-z < : popper-beginning-of-buffer C-z > : popper-end-of-buffer C-z C-s : popper-isearch-forward C-z o : popper-jump-to-popper C-z x : popper-cycle - cycle thru pop-ups Of course everything is customizable. enjoy, greg