Window system frame should be used about company-quickhelp HOT 10 CLOSED

Hi

Can you do C-h v window-system <RET> and let me know what the value of the variable window-system is?

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sorry for delay response, because i'am from china, and the different time zone

this is the value of window-system value:

window-system is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is nil
It is a terminal-local variable; global value is the same.

Documentation:
Name of window system through which the selected frame is displayed.
The value is a symbol:
nil for a termcap frame (a character-only terminal),
'x' for an Emacs frame that is really an X window,
'w32' for an Emacs frame that is a window on MS-Windows display,
'ns' for an Emacs frame on a GNUstep or Macintosh Cocoa display,
'pc' for a direct-write MS-DOS frame.

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Right, that's the problem. company-quickhelp doesn't work in the terminal.

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When I use auto-complete which uses popup, it's ok.
So, is this the feature of pos-tip which is used by company-quick-help?

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yes, pos-tip only works for GUI emacs and not in the terminal. popup is incredibly buggy so the use of pos-tip is intentional.

When I have some time I'll put a check in place so the next time someone tries to run company-quickhelp in the terminal a friendly error message is displayed instead of a stacktrace.

Sorry I couldn't give you the answer you wanted.

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thank you

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I just ran into this

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@Xe You got an unfriendly explosion instead of a helpful error message?

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Yep, i'm kind of annoyed that this doesn't work in the terminal, a lot of my workflow involves running emacs persistently on a remote server and ssh-ing into it.

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What was the error message you got? I'd really appreciate it if you did M-x toggle-debug-on-error and pasted the entire stacktrace you get when reproducing the problem.

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