Re: XEmacs feature missing in GNU Emacs? (was: XEmacs)

[Ian van der Neut <ivdneut@gmail.com>]

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Not sure if it's small, but here goes.

In vim, Sublime Text, and others (osx textmate I've been told) you can set
an option that will save the file in the current frame when it loses focus.
While googling to check if Emacs can be configured to have the same
behaviour I found that XEmacs has a 'deselect-frame-hook' that could be
used for this. From the same googling, I found that Emacs would require
something beyond a mere elisp module, but it would have to be implemented
in the core C code itself.

I would really like this option, since I am "frame oriented". I tend to
have quite a few frames open and use "focus follows mouse" which is
available in any Linux desktop. I move my mouse to a terminal window to
type 'make' or run the python/bash/what-have-you script and I would like
emacs to save at least the buffer of the frame I just left and perhaps even
all buffers (but since they wouldn't have focus anymore, they'd already
been saved anyway).

Ian.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> glyn.millington@gmail.com writes:
>
> > I suspect that one  reason for sticking with Xemacs now is lots of little
> > customizations  and tweaks which don't easily transfer to Gnu Emacs - the
> > same reason why I wouldn't willingly swap my init.el for yours, because
> > it would change the way I work.
>
> I changed the subject -- maybe this thread is an opportunity to get a
> list of XEmacs features that would be nice to have in GNU Emacs.  I'm
> not thinking of architectural differences, rather of small convenient
> commands or options.
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
>


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