From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rswgnu@gmail.com
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:29:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834loqskkw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9g_pfUFUZ7u2v0QepsdxDqTejTTvp8e7XrajsjgdTrFeg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Robert Weiner on Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:21:56 -0500)
> From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:21:56 -0500
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
> emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> "Although this selects the window's frame, it does not alter the
> frame's position in the window stack (see `raise-frame') nor does
> it direct input focus to that frame. To do both of those at once,
> see `select-frame-set-input-focus'.
>
> I still think this is a clear and modest proposal. select-window already
> mentions frames so I don't see an issue with cross-referencing more frame-related
> behavior to make the needs clear with one additional sentence. Are you guys
> still against this given the further explanations?
Yes. You are proposing to add text about a completely unrelated
aspect of Emacs. Selecting a window has nothing to do with focus, but
it's absurd to ask Emacs to mention in doc strings aspects that are
NOT related to the aspects the doc string describes: there are too
many of those.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-16 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 15:39 Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 18:13 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 18:49 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 21:29 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 21:19 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13 8:49 ` martin rudalics
2017-12-13 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 14:37 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13 19:29 ` martin rudalics
2017-12-13 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-13 22:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-14 15:01 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-14 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-14 23:43 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-15 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-16 16:11 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 17:23 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:27 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:21 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-16 17:04 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 17:15 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 18:16 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 19:18 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 20:52 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-22 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 22:44 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13 14:51 ` Robert Weiner
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