bug#11622: Ediff frame loses focus under certain circumstance

bug#11622: Ediff frame loses focus under certain circumstance

[yary]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:


This is with Windows Emacs 24.1 pretest build 1
Start emacs -Q
Open two files (small and similar will do)
open Tools menu->Compare(Ediff)->Two Buffers...
Hit enter twice to get the two suggested buffers
Hit ? to expand the Ediff control panel commands
Hit n to get to next (first) diff
Hit b to copy diff from B to A
Hit n - and Ediff frame loses focus, goes to B instead


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
c:/Program Files/Emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2006-12-03 on W2ONE
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Id:/g/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: XHTML

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <drag-n-drop>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <tools> <compare>
<ediff-buffers> <return> <return> ? n b n <switch-frame>
M-x r e p o <tab> r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Buffer B: Processing difference region 0 of 17
Buffer B: Processing difference region 10 of 17
Processing difference regions ... done
Refining difference region 1 ...
Saving old diff region #1 of buffer A.  To recover, type `ra' [2 times]
Only white-space differences in region 1
Refining difference region 2 ...
Making completion list...
Loading help-mode...done
Loading emacsbug...done

bug#11622: Ediff frame loses focus under certain circumstance

[martin rudalics]

 > This is with Windows Emacs 24.1 pretest build 1
 > Start emacs -Q
 > Open two files (small and similar will do)
 > open Tools menu->Compare(Ediff)->Two Buffers...
 > Hit enter twice to get the two suggested buffers
 > Hit ? to expand the Ediff control panel commands
 > Hit n to get to next (first) diff
 > Hit b to copy diff from B to A
 > Hit n - and Ediff frame loses focus, goes to B instead

IIUC you can change this by removing the line

	   (not ediff-use-long-help-message)

from the function `ediff-recenter' but for some reason the current
behavior seems the expected one because `ediff-setup-control-frame'
looks at the value of `ediff-use-long-help-message' when deciding
whether to auto raise the control frame or not.

 > In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 >  of 2006-12-03 on W2ONE
 > X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
 > configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Id:/g/include'

I suppose this is not from the 24.1 pretest build.

martin

bug#11622: Ediff frame loses focus under certain circumstance

[yary]

>> In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>  of 2006-12-03 on W2ONE
>> X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Id:/g/include'
>
> I suppose this is not from the 24.1 pretest build.

You are right! I found the bug when running 24.1 pretest, but when I
ran with -Q my PATH got me the old emacs (which I kept in case of
catastrophe with 24). I have now reproduced the same bug using the
same keystrokes in a clean 24.1 pretest, here is its debug report:

> Start emacs -Q
> Open two files (small and similar will do)
> open Tools menu->Compare(Ediff)->Two Buffers...
> Hit enter twice to get the two suggested buffers
> Hit ? to expand the Ediff control panel commands
> Hit n to get to next (first) diff
> Hit b to copy diff from B to A
> Hit n - and Ediff frame loses focus, goes to B instead

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
c:/Program Files/emacs-24/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-06-01 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: nXML

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<drag-n-drop> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <tools> <compare>
<ediff-buffers> <return> <return> ? n b n <switch-frame>
M-x r e p o r t - e <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Computing differences between
template-6897323563008038933-clay-grouse.xml522031K and
template-8410073415756606028-sonia.xml5220S1P ...
Buffer A: Processing difference region 0 of 15
Buffer A: Processing difference region 10 of 15
Buffer B: Processing difference region 0 of 15
Buffer B: Processing difference region 10 of 15
Processing difference regions ... done
Refining difference region 1 ...
Saving old diff region #1 of buffer A.  To recover, type `ra' [2 times]
Only white-space differences in region 1
Refining difference region 2 ...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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