Re: save-frame-excursion?

[Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This patch makes sure that `make-frame' gives the focus back to the
>> previously selected frame.
>> Shall I apply this?
>
> Don't know.  Here are some comments:
> - does it work (as in "with Metacity/W32/macosx/xmonad/addyourfavoriteWMhere")?

I don't have access to all these WM, I'm sending the patch here to get
feedback about this.

> - as Stephen pointed out, it should be run before the hook.

Yes.

> - it's not clear that it does the right thing if the selected-frame
>   is not the frame with focus (basically we'd need a focussed-frame
>   function to figure it out).

Yes, a focused-frame would be nice.

> - it brings us back to this problem of "focus via activation".
> - is x-focus-frame always defined when this code is run (i.e. can't
>   this code be run also on emacs-nox)?

So maybe a variant of this patch should better be applied to
make-frame-command, which handle this distinction between x/nox.  

> - x-focus-frame should really be renamed (so as to get rid of the "x-"
>   prefix at least).

Okay.  I can't do the job about renaming x-focus-frame and creating the
focused-frame function so I guess my fix will wait for that.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien