From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Riel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 08:53:37 -0800 Message-ID: <20210203085337.1c29304f@gauss> References: <20210201131654.07652026@gauss> <878s8618p1.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14031"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 18:02:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l7LXt-0003Z5-7b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:02:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48442 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7LXs-0000J3-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:02:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7LPT-0002KW-4p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from p-impout007aa.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net ([47.43.26.138]:55948 helo=p-impout007.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7LPR-0007dp-Cl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from gauss ([75.80.191.41]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id 7LPNlpxTgzFB27LPNlFwls; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:53:38 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=QMkWuTDL c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=+5CDr9/63YJEsolaBHb2hg==:117 a=+5CDr9/63YJEsolaBHb2hg==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=spfw7PUuAAAA:8 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=RiKIPPpGaXpCCEA0we8A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=B_RyunTPg8udlmYm5Cu2:22 In-Reply-To: <878s8618p1.fsf@web.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfA0z3O89tXVoK85WUz+Bk2eg1/WcJEAfe2vwKmGHW5ess7X/2KRSd0QzPyBhOHQHkWcQwLhW6wlPJdoHRCCG7jLipmYLWD2soiRnCi0mfTU7OCDQ9rD4 EgIMEXvN4yY7ip1WDUFku0fTv4L0EKn8xVgdZCjqEiG8GHLLky2NRIJkJptWqvcsktnyOUON2VXs6A== Received-SPF: pass client-ip=47.43.26.138; envelope-from=joer@san.rr.com; helo=p-impout007.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127586 Archived-At: On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:06:02 +0100 Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Joe Riel writes: > > > When launching ediff (emacs 26.1) the floating frame that controls the > > session isn't automatically being selected, I have to do so manually. > > Is there a way to configure it so that it is selected at the launch? > > As far as I recall, the behavior you want is the default behavior, and > has been for a long time. > > The control frame is only not selected if it is already existing and > iconified, or if `ediff-use-long-help-message' is set to a non-nil > value, or if your window manager prevents Emacs from setting input > focus. > > Could one of these points be true for you? I recently upgraded my Debian distro from 9 to 10. That's when the behavior changed. I recall that, some years ago, the default behavior was for the ediff control frame to not get focus initially. Then it started working (either with change to Emacs or distro, don't recall). Now its back to not working [my opinion]. I verified that ediff-use-long-help-messages is nil and that the frame doesn't already exist. -- Joe Riel