On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:59:10PM -0600, Michael Herman wrote: 

>I am using Mutt for e-mail with emacs for editing and
>composing. Today, I run a separate instance of emacs everytime I
>compose or edit. I have tried emacsclient but have one issue - when
>using emacsclient, the focus doesn't change so I need to alt-tab in
>the window manager to the emacs window.
>
>I have been playing around with raise-frame to bring the emacs window
>to the front and that works fine but it doesn't change the focus.
>The focus is still on the Mutt window.  Is there any way to raise the
>frame and have emacs grab the focus?
>

I googled for some stuff and found a solution for getting the focus to
emacs and raising it.  Here it is being called from my post-mode-hook.

;;declare frame name
(setq main-frame (selected-frame))

;; Post mode hooks
(add-hook 'post-mode-hook
     '(lambda ()
      (raise-frame main-frame)
      (x-focus-frame main-frame)
))


However, is there a function to hand the focus back to a non-emacs
application (Mutt)?  I created an exit-hook for the post mode I use
and it works to lower the emacs window but the focus does not return
to the xterm which is running Mutt.

Here's what I have so far:

(add-hook 'exit-post-mode-hook
     '(lambda ()
      (lower-frame main-frame)
	))

Again, thanks in advance for the help.


-- 
Michael Herman