From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Running this-command in another window Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:33:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4744DC7F.6030602@gmail.com> References: <4744B033.10409@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195695276 28153 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2007 01:34:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:34:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 02:34:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iv0xl-0001Lc-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:34:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv0xX-0001rk-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv0x2-0001Sw-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv0x0-0001RE-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv0x0-0001R4-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iv0wz-0003eM-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63617 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iv0wx-0002KN-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:33:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <4744B033.10409@gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071121-0, 2007-11-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Iv0wx-0002KN-6h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Iv0wx-0002KN-6h 0db79ac9da00a50cdb4925a139361320 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83819 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > I am trying to run the current command in another window than the window > it was issued in. I do something like this in pre-command-hook: > > (select-window my-desired-window) > > This actually seems to do what I want most of the times, but when the > command has something like > > (interactive "sRegexp\nP") > > the regexp can't be read. The prompt is shown, but the input goes to the > buffer in my-desired-window. > > Is there any way to do what I want to do, ie run the command in > my-desired-window? I have found the solution. The problem was switching back to previous window in post-command-hook. The post-command-hook is run after setting up the minibuffer prompt and for every character entered. The solution was just to check for (active-minibuffer-prompt).