Fwd: [PATCH] frame.c: focus hooks

[Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>]

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That's the terminology used in several GUI libraries (and in client-side
web) when you want to listen for focus events. Anyways, the name is not
particularly important - if X is using "FocusIn" and "FocusOut" and Emacs
uses the X terminology that's fine.


On 18 November 2013 15:32, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I welcome your idea! In fact I've been thinking for quite some time we
> > needed something like this. I don't like the names of the hooks, however,
> > since they don't seem particularly standard - usually the terminology
> used
> > with focus is "focus gained" and "focus lost" (or "on focus" and "on lose
> > focus").
>
> I've never heard "gain focus".  I think focus-in-hook and focus-out-hook
> look fine to me.  At least, "FocusIn" and "FocusOut" are the terms used
> by the X library, and so far Emacs has followed this naming convention.
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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