XEmacs opinion for preview-latex required...

[Steve Youngs]

* David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

  > Hi,
  > preview-latex contains in its mode setup

  >   (and preview-use-balloon-help
  >        (not (and (boundp 'balloon-help-mode)
  > 		 balloon-help-mode))
  >        (balloon-help-minor-mode 1))

  > and preview-use-balloon-help defaults to t.

  > On the other hand, we have received several complaints about the
  > balloon-help-mode which seemingly results from this mode being not so
  > very "native".  The consequences are that the windows that pop up are
  > fully decorated and tend to interfere with the focus.

The frame decoration is the responsibility of the window manager, not
XEmacs.  There are a couple of examples in balloon-help.el commentary
section about how to set minimal decorations on the balloon-help
frames.

As for the focus, you are probably going to run into trouble if you
have something like a "focus follows mouse" strategy in your WM.  This
problem is sometimes made worse by users who believe that if they ever
take their hand off the rat, it'll somehow stop working.

  > Apparently, this situation is quite worse on Windows.

Doesn't surprise me.  Are decorations even configurable on this
platform? 


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