From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can Emacs help here (running on Linux, display on Windows)? Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:48:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20170805143626106652573@bob.proulx.com> References: <83o9ruwmc2.fsf@gnu.org> <20170805130657728047822@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501966152 14510 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2017 20:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 20:49:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Skip Montanaro Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 22:49:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de60O-0003Is-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de60U-0007oX-FN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5zy-0007oI-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5zv-0000TT-1O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:44835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5zu-0000TA-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A3A7B3; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:48:34 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AA6217DF; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:48:34 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDC5C2DC5B; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:48:33 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: Skip Montanaro , Help GNU Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113941 Archived-At: Skip Montanaro wrote: > Thanks. I was hoping there was some magic little ELisp function I > could write which was activated when Emacs lost focus. It would gobble > up mouse events until the click came for the focus, eat it, then > return, leaving the normal event processing to take over. Stefan Monnier suggested some focus hooks that could perhaps be used to program exactly what you suggest. But it would need some programming. Sounds possible though. > Not a huge deal. I'll try and get into the habit of clicking the title > bar. I notice that as I've aged (I'm 63 now, started with Gosling > Emacs on VMS at 28), my accuracy with the mouse has degraded a bit. > Certainly some of it is related to the age effect, though some of it > might be that the setups of my various computing environments are > suboptimal. I had suggested clicking on the title, border, frame, but you might also try Alt-TAB switching. And Shift-Alt-TAB for reversing the order. Left thumb holding down on the Alt. Left finger tapping on the TAB key. If you go past then the right pinky on the shift reverses the direction through the list. It isn't the best interface, especially when there are many windows active, but it is one that most window managers implement in some way or another and is therefore fairly universal. And no spurious mouse events to move the point. I think borders have gotten smaller since I have gotten older. Certainly the small fonts have gotten smaller. :-) Bob