Re: mouse-autoselect-window and menu bar

[Stefan Monnier]

> Symptoms:
> 1. in *scratch* buffer eval (setq mouse-autoselect-window t)
> 2. divide emacs in 2 windows (C-x 2)
> 3. in lower window: M-x info

> now when I try to move the mouse pointer to the menu-bar (through the upper
> window), the menu-bar changes (according to the mode of the upper window's
> buffer). This makes it a real pain to access e.g. the Info menu. 

I'm sure you understand why that's happening.
Do you have a suggestion for how to avoid the problem?
I myself turn off the menu-bar, so I access the menu via C-mouse-3 which has
none of those problems ;-)

In any case I don't think it's a bug: if it bothers you, don't use
mouse-autoselect-window.


        Stefan