Re: Trying to return focus to a window

[Kevin Rodgers]

Richard Riley wrote:
> I have tried two ways to have the focus return to the source
> buffer/window when "execute buffer" is done using python integration
> as outlined here :
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PythonMode#toc10
>
> The two ways I have tried (both using defadvice) are:
>
> ,----
> | ;; (defadvice py-execute-buffer (around stay-current-buffer activate)
> | ;;   "This advice make cursor stay current position after execute 
> `py-execute-buffer'."
> | ;;   (save-excursion
> | ;;     ad-do-it)
> | ;;   (message "py-execute-function done"))
> | 
> | (defadvice py-execute-buffer (around stay-current-buffer activate)
> |   "This advice make cursor stay current position after execute 
> `py-execute-buffer'."
> |   (let ((remember-point (point))
> |         (remember-window (selected-window)))
> |     ad-do-it
> |     (message "focus stuff done")
> |     (select-window remember-window)
> |     (goto-char remember-point)))
> `----
>
> But in both cases the cursor stays in the iPython window (same
> frame). Can someone suggest how best to get the cursor back into the
> python buffer when I execute py-execute-buffer? is there something
> fundamentally wrong with the approach I have taken above or a naive code
> error?

You could try save-selected-window instead of save-excursion.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA