From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select-window and select-frame
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:14:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E185XK1-0002FB-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210242348.g9ONmVr17119@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
I think this change of behavior in select-window is bad and should
be reverted. It is incompatible and does break existing code.
The solution I implemented seems to be bad, but it is not clear what a
good solution is.
The original problem is that
(save-selected-window
(select-window ...)
..)
can permanently alter the frame-selected-window of a frame. I tried
solving it by making select-window not alter the frame-selected-window
of a frame that isn't selected. If we don't solve it that way, we need
to solve it some other way, but what?
One idea is that save-selected-window could also save and restore the
frame-selected-window of every frame. Another idea is to have two
different kinds of window-selection, one temporary and one "for real".
Both of these changes would have major ramifications, and so does the
solution I implemented. It is not clear what to do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-26 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-24 23:48 select-window and select-frame Stefan Monnier
2002-10-26 20:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-10-29 15:43 ` md5i
2002-10-29 19:36 ` Stefan Monnier
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