Re: Frame ordering

[Jan Djärv]

Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-06-14 18.47:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:29 PM, David Reitter<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > > What is the reason not to let the window handler do this job? Why
> > > should Emacs do it?
> >
> > Absolutely.  Up to now I've been going by the comment quoted elsewhere in this 
> > thread, stating that we'd have to do it ourselves.
>
> Was not what you shown (Command-Tab switching) what the window handler
> on OS X does? If so then trying to interfere with that is probably a
> bad idea (and is prevented actively by at least w32).
>
> Of course internal Emacs frame switching must be handled in Emacs. I
> have personally never used any command inside Emacs for frame
> switching, but I can see such needs. (One of those is for example
> letting C-x 5 0 show the next Emacs frame instead of what the window
> manager chooses if a window manager command is used to close the
> frame.)

I haven't followed this closely, but any attempt to make Emacs do frame 
switching in X11 is doomed to failure on some window managers.  Window 
managers doesn't need to honor raise-frame.

Besides, why should C-x 5 0 select another Emacs frame? I often use a 
non-Emacs app, make a new Emacs frame, do some editing and then C-x 5 0 to get 
back to the non-Emacs app, even on OSX.

Sorry if this has been discussed before.

        Jan D.