Re: suggested new command `picture-mouse-set-point'

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> > > One problem with this approach is that quite often you just need to
> > > click on some window to select another window or give focus to a frame
> > > -- and in that case you most likely don't want to modify the buffer if
> > > you accidentally click or a TAB or after EOL or EOB.
> > > 
> > > Maybe the -rigidly functionality should only be activated if
> > > the mouse is clicked in the selected window & frame.
> > 
> > I agree that is a problem, and your solution sounds good (or at least
> > the right sort of idea; I haven't tested it).
> 
> I don't understand: this problem is not specific to this
> mouse-set-point-rigidly.  Normally it is solved in a generic way
> by the window-manager by making sure that the click that changes
> focus is not sent to the application.
> Am I missing something ?

If I have just one frame with two windows, clicking the mouse in "the
other" window isn't a "focus change" event in the mind of the window
manager. So emacs must handle that case sensibly.


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