Re: focus-follows-mouse

[David Kastrup]

"Sam Steingold" <address@hidden> writes:

> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>  of 2008-05-05 on nyc-qws-005
>  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/mnt/office/dev/opt'
>
> I just noticed that I need to click the mouse to switch the focus
> between emacs windows (as opposed to emacs frames/X windows which are
> switched between based on the mouse movement).
> Even though the documentation of focus-follows-mouse makes it abundantly
> clear that this is not the intent of the variable, I think it would be
> better if emacs switched the emacs window focus based on mouse movement
> when this variable is set to non-nil.

I disagree since that makes the desktop inconsistent.  Even if Emacs
could reliably ignore the window manager for such functions.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum