X-Debbugs-CC: alan@idiocy.org Reproduction is pretty easy, just evaluate (display-buffer-in-child-frame (get-buffer-create "*test*") nil) Perhaps I'm missing something? Because packages that uses childframe like eldoc-box are working fine. I tried using the same ALIST as eldoc-box, and various buffers like newly created buffer and current buffer, but it always crashes In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 46, x86_64-apple-darwin22.4.0, NS appkit-2299.50 Version 13.3.1 (Build 22E261)) of 2023-04-16 built on Brown Repository revision: 6c81ef4cf985dad908fc473f31c0daf662fd2dad Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2299 System Description: macOS 13.3.1 Configured using: 'configure --with-pdumper=yes --with-ns PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' Configured features: ACL DBUS GLIB GNUTLS JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 36193 12385) (symbols 48 5099 0) (strings 32 12577 1962) (string-bytes 1 351234) (vectors 16 9352) (vector-slots 8 147536 10497) (floats 8 21 17) (intervals 56 202 0) (buffers 984 11))