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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Robert Marshall <robert@capuchin.co.uk>
Cc: 47969@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47969: 28.0.50; Losing minibuffer focus in trying M-x command
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 17:29:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ee648e84004b7745946@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24706.50397.801563.461736@capuchin.co.uk>


>
> I've been finding - in last 12 months - that sometimes when I do M-x and 
> type something the cursor has moved to the main window in that frame, 
> and the desired command ends up in that window if it is a 'normal' 
> buffer or does more drastic things if (for example) in dired.
>
> from Ch l in one of these cases
> <escape> <select-window> x		 ;; execute-extended-command
> ;; handle-select-window
> g					 ;; revert-buffer
> n					 ;; dired-next-line
> u					 ;; dired-unmark
> s					 ;; dired-sort-toggle-or-edit
>
> you'll see that my intention of typing M-x gnus has been subverted and 
> the commands are happening in a dired buffer!
>
> I have (setq mouse-autoselect-window 1) but I don't think I'm pausing 
> long enough (and it doesn't see to kick in anyway from a minibuffer) 
> that handle-select-window is clearly the problem but not sure where it 
> is coming from, and it is happening very rarely so I'd prefer not to set 
> a break there.
>

Thanks for your bug report.  I could not reproduce what you describe alas; 
could you perhaps try to create a recipe, starting with emacs -Q, with 
which the bug you experience is triggered?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-24 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-23 13:00 bug#47969: 28.0.50; Losing minibuffer focus in trying M-x command Robert Marshall
2021-04-24 17:29 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-25  6:41   ` Robert Marshall
2021-04-25  9:58     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-25 12:28       ` Robert Marshall
2021-04-25 12:29         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-01 20:20           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-02  6:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-03  9:07               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-03 11:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-03 12:15                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-03 12:18                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02  7:39             ` martin rudalics
2021-05-02  8:01               ` Robert Marshall
2021-05-03  8:42               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-03  9:38                 ` martin rudalics
2021-05-03  9:41                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-03 11:19                     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-03 12:02                       ` martin rudalics
2021-05-03 12:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-03 12:20                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-03 17:31                           ` martin rudalics
2021-05-03 17:46                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04  7:41                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-04 11:59                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 13:04                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-04 13:17                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 13:26                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-04 14:02                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 14:43                                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-04 15:19                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05  7:25                                               ` martin rudalics
2021-05-05  9:02                                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-05  9:25                                                   ` martin rudalics
2021-05-05  9:40                                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-05 11:24                                                       ` martin rudalics
2021-05-05 12:06                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-06  7:44                                                   ` martin rudalics
2021-05-06  8:06                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-06 13:22                                                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-06 13:50                                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-06 14:18                                                           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-08 12:38                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-08 13:36                                                           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-25  8:52                                                             ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-25 19:40                                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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