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Re: mouse-autoselect-window


From: Davis Herring
Subject: Re: mouse-autoselect-window
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
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>> That is exactly true, and that's exactly why it is useless to set
>> focus-follows-mouse on MS-Windows: the w32 support code that handles
>> frame switches already uses the Windows API that you mentioned.
>
> IIUC it wouldn't harm to explicitly move the mouse-pointer there
> if focus-follows-mouse is non-nil and the window gets selected
> in a programmed way.  Or does the API move the mouse pointer too
> when switching frames?

IIUC it would be -necessary- to do so if point-to-focus were enabled, just
as it is on X with that policy.  So when the user tells us that's the
policy (with `focus-follows-mouse'), we should definitely do so!  (Unless
your last notion about the API is correct, of course.)

Davis

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