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


From: mituharu
Subject: Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on MS Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:04:57 +0900 (JST)
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>> Moreover, moving the mouse pointer is not the main objective of
>> select-frame-set-input-focus or other-frame
>
> Neither it's its objective to leave the pointer where it were.

Are you joking?  What function would have its objective to leave
the pointer where it was?

> Please read the previous discussion about focus-follows-mouse: there,
> Jan. D. explained that whatever Emacs does under focus-follows-mouse
> is a hack intended to work around window managers that won't let us
> change focus otherwise.

In other words, what Emacs does under focus-follows-mouse = nil
is the primary behavior.  So, it should be set to nil in the
platforms such that the workaround is not needed there.  Mac is
such a platform.  How about W32?

> In other words, the fact that we move the
> mouse pointer has nothing to do with what is deemed appropriate wrt to
> where the mouse pointer should be positioned.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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