From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: put input focus on active minibuffer
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:01:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <636a172f-7790-4245-9c6e-1d7b77d8aa35@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737suu20f.fsf@gmail.com>
> >> But, if using GNU Emacs 24.4 or later, perhaps make use of
> >> `focus-in-hook`? For example, something along the lines of:
> >>
> >> (defun focus-to-active-minibuffer ()
> >> (if (minibuffer-window-active-p (minibuffer-window))
> >> (select-window (minibuffer-window))))
> >>
> >> (add-hook 'focus-in-hook #'focus-to-active-minibuffer)
> >
> > If you do that then whenever a frame receives the focus so will
> > its (active) minibuffer window. That precludes the user
> > interactions I described above, and about which you "Agreed".
>
> Well, my suggestion was code to help the OP achieve the effect
> they want, without any other GNU Emacs users being affected. i'm
> sorry that my wording seems to have conveyed the impression that i
> was suggesting that my code be incorporated directly into GNU
> Emacs itself.
I see. You were saying how to do it on one's own, and not
speaking to the OP's feature request for Emacs. Sorry for
not understanding that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-15 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 10:19 put input focus on active minibuffer Katsumi Yamaoka
2016-02-12 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-14 4:52 ` Alexis
2016-02-14 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-15 2:43 ` Alexis
2016-02-15 3:01 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-15 4:34 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-20 2:26 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-22 23:43 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2016-02-24 2:22 ` Elias Mårtenson
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2016-02-15 6:37 Alexis
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