From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Fassel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:16:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416936036 31368 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 17:20:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:20:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 18:20:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJmn-0001ks-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:20:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtJmn-0008Un-07 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:20:21 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Zukx+gLznbXXtuhVT9afVQMrhnrlTY/eNkbmN+0Zb7FJYyCfg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:BCvfnd7wqggZoo+rJreeAYS5mT4= sha1:mx+iVqbwKgPFfpz83+iSRARteME= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208901 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101181 Archived-At: * Drew Adams | If you leave your mouse in the Ediff Control Panel frame then focus | should stay there, and if you move it out of that frame, into another | frame, then focus should leave that frame. That should be no | different from turning off focus-follows-mouse and clicking in a frame | to focus it. Agreed, and that is exactly what happens. No fault of emacs anywhere in sight. Problem is completely located between chair and screen. | Assuming that this worked (if it does not), what would the problem be | for Ediff, for your use? During an Ediff Session, sometimes I have to leave the Control Panel to check something in a different window or buffer, or even on a different desktop. When I get back to Ediff: where is my Control Panel? Yes, of course it is still where I left it, upper right corner of the screen, but obscured now by the terminal, firefox or any other odd window I happened to raise over it during my check-something-outside-of-ediff. And even if the Control Panel is still visible on the screen, the mouse is no longer inside that Control Panel. In order to get my ediff session back, I have to accurately raise the control panel, raise emacs (I *think* they are connected somehow, so maybe this is not necessary), place mouse accurately inside (tiny) Control Panel, pay attention not to nudge it out of there etc etc. Compare to single frame ediff: move mouse anywhere into (large) emacs window, press C-M-Up, press C-L, continue with ediff. And no, I will *not* enter a bug report for this, even if it were one ;-) R'