Re: mouse-autoselect-window

[martin rudalics]

> I disagree.  I'm running Emacs on GNU/Linux under KDE, I have a
> click-to-focus policy but also have mouse-autoselect-window set to t,
> because I want to have autoselection between split windows within a
> single frame.  I also observe the same behavior that Drew Adams
> described.

Seems like a bug, indeed.  Could you try the attached patch (against
Emacs_22_BASE) with `focus-follows-mouse' nil and
`mouse-autoselect-window' non-nil?  We'd also have to remove the

This variable does not have any effect on MS-Windows.

statement in the `focus-follows-mouse' doc-string (and as Drew suggested
update the documentation).


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--- window.el   Wed Sep  5 19:59:54 2007
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*** 853,858 ****
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          ;; Delayed autoselection was temporarily suspended, reenable it.
          (mouse-autoselect-window-start mouse-position))
         ((and window (not (eq window (selected-window)))
+              (or focus-follows-mouse
+                  ;; With `focus-follows-mouse' nil, do autoselection
+                  ;; if and only if we're within the same frame.
+                  (eq (window-frame window)
+                      (window-frame (selected-window))))
               (or (not (numberp mouse-autoselect-window))
                   (and (> mouse-autoselect-window 0)
                        ;; If `mouse-autoselect-window' is positive, select