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Re: focus-follows-mouse
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: focus-follows-mouse |
Date: |
Tue, 06 May 2008 08:11:14 +0900 |
"Sam Steingold" <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Please, no. There is a very strong historical distinction between frame
and window behavior, and users are used to it. This is core behavior,
and it can't just be changed based on a whim (and to my knowledge has
been essentially no demand for such a change).
[Morever, the behavior you want seems inconsistent with other apps --
pretty much everything that has a text entry "focus" requires a click or
command to change it, regardless of WM focus behavior (they typically
maintain a separate input focus per WM-window).]
-Miles
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