From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:25:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878s8618p1.fsf@web.de> <87lfc5eic8.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3036"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jIXqt5enSMAeB1P693Y186hysUI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 17:43:30 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 1l7LFa-0000hb-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7LFX-0001W7-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7L2c-0005bV-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7L2b-0003XT-7k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l7L2Y-00060Q-6w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:30:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:127585 Archived-At: >> 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? > None is true for me. I wonder how you can be so sure that it can't be that "your window manager prevents Emacs from setting input focus". I think most people who have worked on this part of Emacs's code would find it hard to answer this question definitively. Stefan