From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:33:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmj2ugok.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sjyuvp5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:10:32 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:10:32 -0500
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, rswgnu@gmail.com, 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'.
> >> We can add that but I'll rather let Eli decide whether it's useful.
> > I generally consider this to be a futile waste of energy, as it can
> > never work reliably with all the window managers out there. It is
> > much easier either to install the WM which behaves as you want, or
> > make an Emacs key binding to do that.
>
> Not sure what "that" refers to in this last sentence.
> The proposal is just to add the above paragraph (or something similar)
> to the docstring of select-window to clarify that select-window doesn't
> affect frame focus.
My misunderstanding, sorry.
But if the issue is documentation, why not show a proposed patch?
That'd make clear what is being proposed, because discussing
documentation changes without a concrete proposal is not an efficient
way of making such decisions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 3:33 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 [this message]
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
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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