Re: emacsclient/server finished, documentation, raising frames

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> [All the following is Windows-specific; please skip it if you're not
> interested.]
>
> I've just checked in a patch to emacsclient that allows it to bring
> Emacs to front just before passing it a file. "Allows" is the
> operative word: Emacs won't be the foreground app unless it does
> something to be, that is, call `raise-frame'.
Is this really Windows specific? It doesn't seem like it should be, as 
it is a user preference whether Emacs should jump to the front when 
emacsclient is used. Currently the frame is raised whenever Emacs was 
iconified, and there doesn't seem to be a user option to control this. 
Personally I think there should be a user option that controls whether 
Emacs is raised, whether iconified or not.

> 1) Modify `server-switch-buffer' to raise the frame. Hairy.
> `server-switch-buffer' already does quite a lot of things to try to
> determine the right buffer/window/frame (and in some cases it already
> calls `raise-frame'), so I don't think it is wise to mess with it.
I think this is the best place for it though, as this code has knowledge 
about which frame needs to be raised.