Position of help popup overlaps or hides company popup about company-quickhelp HOT 12 CLOSED

If you look at the master branch there hasn't been any significant changes for quite some time. Only stuff like better error messages.

If you don't load any of your own configuration, e.g. by starting emacs with emacs -q and only load company-mode and company-quickhelp does this still happen?

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I get what you are saying. I stripped of my init files to bare minimum, and the problem still persists.

I started emacs -Q, and loaded the two modes with load-file. However, I can't seem to get company-quickhelp popup to appear itself.

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I cloned your emacs configuration in an attempt to reproduce the problem but everything worked as expected.

Without being able to reproduce the problem there's unfortunately very little I can do.

If you want to use this as an opportunity to dive into emacs debugging I'd be happy to help you solve your own problem :)

ps. I had to manually add melpa as an archive to bootstrap your dotemacs. It seems it couldn't find use-package without doing that.

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Thanks for your time. Should be one of my own configuration niggles. Would love to learn a bit more about debugging emacs.

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M-x find-library <RET> company-quickhelp <RET> will take you to the source code of company-quickhelp. Then navigate to company-quickhelp--show and with point inside the function do M-x edebug-defun <RET>.

If you now start typing something that will trigger a documentation popup, preferably in another buffer, you should enter company-quickhelp--show in the debugger. At that point you'll have to step through the function, and possible other functions to looks for anything suspicious.

To disable instrumentation just do eval-defun to re-evaluate the function without any instrumentation.

If you have the time, edebug is very powerful and quite easy to learn. You can learn everything you need in 5-10 minutes.

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I have the same issue, even with emacs -Q using Emacs 25.0.50.1
I can not tell when this started though.

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Same here on GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2015-04-11 on builder10-9.porkrind.org

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There's now a pull-request available to fix this issue. I'm testing it now for regressions, but it would be great if some one you had time to verify the fix.

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Just had a quick look. When editing elisp files this fix seems to work ok, though I would prefer the help-window to stay inside the emacs frame which is not always the case.

In python files (using elpy) I get the following error instead of a quickhelp-window

Error running timer `company-quickhelp--show': (wrong-type-argument overlayp nil)

Let me know if I can provide more information.

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@ardpp
I started getting that same error. This is what fixed it for me: spirani@1d2a8cd

Could you take a look at this and see if it fixes the problem?

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@spirani
Yes, it works as expected now!

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@expez @spirani Yes, seems to work for me as well.

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