This package displays ElDoc documentations in a childframe. * Install Get the file, add to load path, and #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (require 'eldoc-box) #+END_SRC * Usage Show the documentation of the symbol at point: =eldoc-box-help-at-point= Show documentation upon hover: =eldoc-box-hover-mode=. Note that you need to enable ElDoc mode for this to work. Adjust =:background= of =eldoc-box-border= face for border color. Adjust =:background= of =eldoc-box-body= face for background color of childframe. ** Use with eglot As of writing this README, eglot doesn't have a public mode hook, use this hook: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (add-hook 'eglot--managed-mode-hook #'eldoc-box-hover-mode t) #+END_SRC