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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:10:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1sjyuvp5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d13iv095.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:30:46 +0200")

>> > Although this selects the window's frame, it does not alter the frame's
>> > position in the window stack (see `raise-frame') nor does it direct input
>> > focus to that frame.
>> > To do both of those at once, see `select-frame-set-input-focus'.
>> We can add that but I'll rather let Eli decide whether it's useful.
> I generally consider this to be a futile waste of energy, as it can
> never work reliably with all the window managers out there.  It is
> much easier either to install the WM which behaves as you want, or
> make an Emacs key binding to do that.

Not sure what "that" refers to in this last sentence.
The proposal is just to add the above paragraph (or something similar)
to the docstring of select-window to clarify that select-window doesn't
affect frame focus.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12 15:39 Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 18:13 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 18:49   ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 20:40   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 21:29     ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-12 21:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 21:19   ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13  8:49 ` martin rudalics
2017-12-13 13:37   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 14:37     ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13 19:29       ` martin rudalics
2017-12-13 20:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-13 22:10           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-12-14  3:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-14 15:01               ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-14 20:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-14 23:43                   ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-15  1:42                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-16 16:11                       ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:42                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 17:23                           ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:27                       ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:21                 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 16:29                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 17:04                     ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 17:15                       ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 17:26                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 18:16                         ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 18:41                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 19:18                             ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-16 19:56                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 20:52                                 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-22 10:19                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 22:44                                 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-13 14:51   ` Robert Weiner

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