Re: mouse-autoselect-window

[David Kastrup]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>> 1. I'm not 100% sure I understand you. I guess you mean that if, for
>> example, some code does `select-frame-set-input-focus', then the mouse
>> pointer will be moved to the newly selected frame. Is that right?
>>
>> That's certainly true. But if that is the only intended effect of
>> `focus-follows-mouse', then I'd say that this option should be named
>> `mouse-follows-focus', not the reverse. IOW, what you describe (and what I
>> see) is that _if_ the focus is changed to another frame _then_ the mouse is
>> warped to that frame.
>
> It's needed to avoid that a window-manager with focus-follows-mouse
> policy inadvertently reselects the old frame when you move the mouse the
> first time after `select-frame-set-input-focus'.

On the other hand, naming the option after what it does rather than
the window manager interaction it is intended for might indeed make it
more obvious.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum