Re: mouse-autoselect-window

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:10:17 +0200 martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I inserted messages in a progn before and after the sexp (eq
>> (window-frame window) (window-frame (selected-window))), and also
>> before and after mouse-autoselect-window-timer is set in
>> mouse-autoselect-window-start.  But in all cases no message was
>> issued.  I even redumped emacs, but still nothing.  Do you have a
>> suggestion that you know will show a message?
>
> It always did when I tested this.  But this has been throughly tested
> only on Unix and Windows, never on GNU/Linux.  Could you try removing
> the outer `condition-case' of `mouse-autoselect-window-select', I
> suppose it triggers some error before getting there.

I commented out the condition-case and the corresponding error sexp,
re-byte-compiled, redumped.  Still no messages, and no errors.  And
still the same behavior:

>> One thing I notice with mouse-autoselect-window non-nil: if I set it
>> to a noticeable delay, still when I move the mouse to another frame
>> with split windows, and there onto a different window than was
>> previously selected, then the previously selected mode line
>> immediately displays the active face, and switches to inactive after
>> the delay.  In other words, something in the mouse autoselect code
>> seems to take effect immediately, ignoring the delay, as long as
>> mouse-autoselect-window is non-nil.
>
> If it's on a different frame it should be avoided by the code I sent
> you.  Something must be bypassing it ...

Is anyone else able to reproduce what I see on GNU/Linux?

Steve Berman