posframe VS clippy.el

Compare posframe vs clippy.el and see what are their differences.

posframe

Pop a posframe (just a child-frame) at point, posframe is a **GNU ELPA** package! (by tumashu)

clippy.el

Show tooltip with function documentation at point (by Fuco1)
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posframe clippy.el
5 6
419 214
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4.4 2.2
7 days ago 9 months ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
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posframe

Posts with mentions or reviews of posframe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.

clippy.el

Posts with mentions or reviews of clippy.el. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing posframe and clippy.el you can also consider the following projects:

emacs-mini-frame - Show minibuffer in child frame on read-from-minibuffer

corfu - :desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction

el-docstring-at-point - provide Emacs' elisp symbol documentation at point [Moved to: https://github.com/rileyrg/el-docstring-sap]

company-childframe - Use child-frame as company candidate menu.

kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

emacs

helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework