From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: focus-follows-mouse Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 08:11:14 +0900 Message-ID: <878wyofist.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210029101 4940 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 23:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 23:11:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 01:12:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt9qy-0004hY-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 01:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt9qG-00029I-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt9qC-00028v-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt9qA-00028e-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41919 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt9qA-00028b-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt9q5-0002ON-Ke; Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-062.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.62] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Jt9q2-0004aK-Og; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:11:18 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8ACD82F4D; Tue, 6 May 2008 08:11:14 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 14:09:54 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96547 Archived-At: "Sam Steingold" writes: > Even though the documentation of focus-follows-mouse makes it abundantly > clear that this is not the intent of the variable, I think it would be > better if emacs switched the emacs window focus based on mouse movement > when this variable is set to non-nil. Please, no. There is a very strong historical distinction between frame and window behavior, and users are used to it. This is core behavior, and it can't just be changed based on a whim (and to my knowledge has been essentially no demand for such a change). [Morever, the behavior you want seems inconsistent with other apps -- pretty much everything that has a text entry "focus" requires a click or command to change it, regardless of WM focus behavior (they typically maintain a separate input focus per WM-window).] -Miles -- Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.