From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: sinoohe.mkh@gmail.com, 9729@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9729: 24.0.50; can't editing buffers while in another buffer i'm openning files
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:37:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtqj7q7f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmvfu8wk.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:02:51 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: sinoohe.mkh@gmail.com, 9729@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:02:51 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > AFAIR, the prompt follows to another GUI frame because that frame gets
> > the focus-in event. If I'm right, then it should also work with
> > emacsclient frames on terminals that support focus-in events.
>
> Let's see... I create a daemon and two "-nw" emacsclients, and then:
>
> (setq focus-in-hook '((lambda () (message "focus %s" (selected-frame)))))
>
> Clicking in the two clients does not display the message, so I guess
> that these terminals do not support focus-in events? (This is
> Debian/bullseye under Gnome Shell, with "Terminal" as the terminal,
> which should be a very common environment.)
xterm does. I don't know about Terminal.
> > Failing that, how to tell Emacs to switch to another frame, and would
> > the way to do that easier than just typing C-g and switching to the
> > client frame "by hand"?
>
> I don't know the former, but perhaps the main problem with doing it
> manually today is that you first have to find the emacsclient that has
> the minibuffer active to hit `C-g' in it. Hitting `C-g' in any other
> terminal does nothing.
>
> Perhaps that is something that could be fixed? That is, in an
> emacsclient context, `C-g' should interrupt the minibuffer action, no
> matter what frame it's happening in?
How can this work if we don't read input from the frame where you type
C-g?
But I don't consider myself an expert on this stuff, so maybe there is
a way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-18 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 8:28 bug#9729: 24.0.50; can't editing buffers while in another buffer i'm openning files sinoohe.mkh
2011-10-11 17:50 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-12 5:43 ` mehran khajavi
2021-07-16 14:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-16 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-17 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-18 12:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-18 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-18 13:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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