From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:58:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735ya4a06.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210203085337.1c29304f@gauss>
Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:06:02 +0100
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>
>> Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
>>
>> > When launching ediff (emacs 26.1) the floating frame that controls the
>> > session isn't automatically being selected, I have to do so manually.
>> > Is there a way to configure it so that it is selected at the launch?
>>
>> As far as I recall, the behavior you want is the default behavior, and
>> has been for a long time.
>>
>> The control frame is only not selected if it is already existing and
>> iconified, or if `ediff-use-long-help-message' is set to a non-nil
>> value, or if your window manager prevents Emacs from setting input
>> focus.
>>
>> Could one of these points be true for you?
>
> I recently upgraded my Debian distro from 9 to 10. That's when
> the behavior changed. I recall that, some years ago, the default
> behavior was for the ediff control frame to not get focus initially.
> Then it started working (either with change to Emacs or distro, don't recall).
> Now its back to not working [my opinion].
>
> I verified that ediff-use-long-help-messages is nil and that the
> frame doesn't already exist.
At work on ms windows the behavior was always that the ediff frame gets
focus when started. On my Debian (as far back as I can remember, a few
debian versions), it never got focus. Me too prefer get focus. I never
understood why and just assumed it had something to do with the relation
Emacs/Gnome.
--
Tomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 21:16 ediff control frame doesn't start with focus Joe Riel
2021-02-01 22:49 ` Alan D. Salewski
2021-02-15 16:58 ` Joe Riel
2021-02-02 21:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-03 7:11 ` Janusz S. Bień
2021-02-03 14:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-03 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-03 16:53 ` Joe Riel
2021-02-05 18:58 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
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