Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on MS Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:17:41 -0700
> 
> Why is focus-follows-mouse t by default on MS Windows? The doc string says: 
> 
> "Non-nil if window system changes focus when you move the mouse.
> You should set this variable to tell Emacs how your window manager
> handles focus, since there is no way in general for Emacs to find out
> automatically."
> 
> Since MS Windows does not change focus when you move the mouse, the
> value should be nil, by default.

Does setting it to nil really change anything for you, on Windows?  It
doesn't for me, AFAICS.  I always thought the Windows window manager
cannot be controlled in this way, it sets its own focus policy.
(FWIW, I always change the latter to follow the mouse, since I hate
the extra click and hate even more that the window that gets focus is
always rasied.)

> There is plenty of platform-specific code in Emacs - it automatically
> DTRT (as a default, at least) for several common platforms.

But the defaults generally don't change with the platform -- that's
that old ``platform-independent vs native-flavor'' argument again, the
same as with ls-lisp and what's not.