Re: cursor-in-non-selected-windows in edebug

[Juri Linkov]

I realized that a simpler way to do this is to use
default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows rather than
(default-value 'cursor-in-non-selected-windows) and
(setq-default cursor-in-non-selected-windows ...)

default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows is a global variable,
so it is safe to let-bind it during switching buffers.

I wonder why this variable is not documented in the Emacs Lisp manual?
Some similar pairs are documented, but some are not.  For instance,
there is a pair of case-fold-search and default-case-fold-search in the
Emacs Lisp manual, but there is only cursor-in-non-selected-windows
without default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows, and cursor-type
without default-cursor-type and other.

Below is a new patch that uses default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows:

Index: lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el,v
retrieving revision 3.84
diff -c -r3.84 edebug.el
*** lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el   6 Dec 2005 22:10:07 -0000       3.84
--- lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el   14 Dec 2005 17:05:38 -0000
***************
*** 2516,2521 ****
--- 2521,2527 ----
  (defvar edebug-outside-o-a-p) ; outside overlay-arrow-position
  (defvar edebug-outside-o-a-s) ; outside overlay-arrow-string
  (defvar edebug-outside-c-i-e-a) ; outside cursor-in-echo-area
+ (defvar edebug-outside-d-c-i-n-s-w) ; outside 
default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows
  
  (defvar edebug-eval-list nil) ;; List of expressions to evaluate.
  
***************
*** 2557,2567 ****
  
        (edebug-outside-o-a-p overlay-arrow-position)
        (edebug-outside-o-a-s overlay-arrow-string)
!       (edebug-outside-c-i-e-a cursor-in-echo-area))
      (unwind-protect
        (let ((overlay-arrow-position overlay-arrow-position)
              (overlay-arrow-string overlay-arrow-string)
              (cursor-in-echo-area nil)
              ;; any others??
              )
          (if (not (buffer-name edebug-buffer))
--- 2563,2575 ----
  
        (edebug-outside-o-a-p overlay-arrow-position)
        (edebug-outside-o-a-s overlay-arrow-string)
!       (edebug-outside-c-i-e-a cursor-in-echo-area)
!       (edebug-outside-d-c-i-n-s-w default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows))
      (unwind-protect
        (let ((overlay-arrow-position overlay-arrow-position)
              (overlay-arrow-string overlay-arrow-string)
              (cursor-in-echo-area nil)
+             (default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows t)
              ;; any others??
              )
          (if (not (buffer-name edebug-buffer))
***************
*** 2767,2773 ****
        (setq
         overlay-arrow-position edebug-outside-o-a-p
         overlay-arrow-string edebug-outside-o-a-s
!        cursor-in-echo-area edebug-outside-c-i-e-a)
        )))
  
  
--- 2775,2782 ----
        (setq
         overlay-arrow-position edebug-outside-o-a-p
         overlay-arrow-string edebug-outside-o-a-s
!        cursor-in-echo-area edebug-outside-c-i-e-a
!        default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows edebug-outside-d-c-i-n-s-w)
        )))
  
  
***************
*** 3580,3585 ****
--- 3589,3595 ----
           (overlay-arrow-position edebug-outside-o-a-p)
           (overlay-arrow-string edebug-outside-o-a-s)
           (cursor-in-echo-area edebug-outside-c-i-e-a)
+          (default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows edebug-outside-d-c-i-n-s-w)
           )
         (unwind-protect
           (save-excursion              ; of edebug-buffer
***************
*** 3618,3623 ****
--- 3628,3634 ----
          edebug-outside-o-a-p overlay-arrow-position
          edebug-outside-o-a-s overlay-arrow-string
          edebug-outside-c-i-e-a cursor-in-echo-area
+         edebug-outside-d-c-i-n-s-w default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows
          )
  
         ;; Restore the outside saved values; don't alter

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/