Returning focus to Mutt

Returning focus to Mutt

[Michael Herman]

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I am using Mutt as my MUA which runs in an xterm window.  My editor is
currently defined as emacs so everytime I create or edit a mail, it
launches a brand new instance of emacs.

I would like to use emacsclient and have one question about it.  Is
there a way, after closing the buffer with C-x C-#, for emacs to return
the focus to the Mutt window?  I know I can lower the frame and get it
out of the way but emacs still retains the focus.  

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Michael Herman

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Re: Returning focus to Mutt

[Miles Bader]

Michael Herman <michael@thehermans.org> writes:
> I would like to use emacsclient and have one question about it.  Is
> there a way, after closing the buffer with C-x C-#, for emacs to return
> the focus to the Mutt window?  I know I can lower the frame and get it
> out of the way but emacs still retains the focus.  

Perhaps if you could get emacsclient to create a new frame, and delete
it upon `C-x #', then your window-manager would automatically pop the
focus back to the previously focused window; otherwise I'm not sure (it
seems very hard to specifically _ask_ for the mutt window to be focused,
because how do you know which window it is?)

I think you can do this by using something like:

  ;; force emacsclient to pop up a new window/frame on edited files,
  ;; and focus it
  (setq server-window 
        (lambda (buf)
          (add-to-list 'special-display-buffer-names (buffer-name buf))
          (pop-to-buffer buf)
          (x-focus-frame nil)))

[it worked when I just tried it using `emacsclient /tmp/mutt-foo']

-Miles
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Re: Returning focus to Mutt

[Edward O'Connor]

>> Is there a way, after closing the buffer with C-x C-#, for
>> emacs to return the focus to the Mutt window?
[snip]
> Another option is to use -nw with emacs to keep it inside the
> terminal.

Yet another option is to run your mutt within an ansi-term in
Emacs, so that when the emacsclient buffer is closed, the next
buffer is your *ansi-term* with Mutt in it.


Ted

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Edward O'Connor
oconnor@soe.ucsd.edu