From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: focus-follows-mouse Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 20:16:33 +0200 Message-ID: <851w4g8vlq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210011471 8299 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 18:17:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:17:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 20:18:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt5GX-0005dK-2x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:18:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt5Fp-0002wA-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt5Es-0002DB-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt5Eq-0002Bz-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41260 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt5Eq-0002Bb-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt5Eq-00019e-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.36]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EC83029AA for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:16:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) by mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AA06C032 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:16:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-121.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.121]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A18223D1E1 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:16:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C38D01CC1A23; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:16:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 14:09:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7034/Mon May 5 18:09:37 2008 on mail-in-13.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96518 Archived-At: "Sam Steingold" writes: > GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) > of 2008-05-05 on nyc-qws-005 > '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/mnt/office/dev/opt' > > I just noticed that I need to click the mouse to switch the focus > between emacs windows (as opposed to emacs frames/X windows which are > switched between based on the mouse movement). > Even though the documentation of focus-follows-mouse makes it abundantly > clear that this is not the intent of the variable, I think it would be > better if emacs switched the emacs window focus based on mouse movement > when this variable is set to non-nil. I disagree since that makes the desktop inconsistent. Even if Emacs could reliably ignore the window manager for such functions. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum