Re: Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

On 30/12/11 09:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> FWIW, I _hate_ click-to-focus windowing systems.  They prevent me from
> typing into a partially-obscured window while looking at a window in
> the foreground.

Strictly, that sounds more like a beef with raise-on-focus, a separate 
concern from click-to-focus on several window systems, e.g. AmigaOS was 
click-to-focus but _not_ click-to-raise by default (you could turn on 
"ClickToFront" if you wanted it), you instead clicked specific titlebar 
widgets to raise/lower windows (awkward in its own way of course -the 
widgets could easily be obscured, making raising one window an exercise 
in lowering others)

Various x11 wms permit similar click-to-focus but not click-to-raise 
configuration, though it's not usually the default 
(http://nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/ is one where it is).

 > how to set focus-follows-mouse operation, and then set it up.

It's also possible to have focus-follows-mouse with auto-raise (perhaps 
after further delay), which I assume you'd also find a bit irritating.

Anyway, not that it matters much to emacs beyond continuing to avoid any 
focussed == raised assumption.