Re: Suggestion: Add discussion of input focus handling to select-window; add select-frame-window

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:10:32 -0500
> Cc: martin rudalics <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> > Although this selects the window's frame, it does not alter the frame's
> >> > position in the window stack (see `raise-frame') nor does it direct input
> >> > focus to that frame.
> >> > To do both of those at once, see `select-frame-set-input-focus'.
> >> We can add that but I'll rather let Eli decide whether it's useful.
> > I generally consider this to be a futile waste of energy, as it can
> > never work reliably with all the window managers out there.  It is
> > much easier either to install the WM which behaves as you want, or
> > make an Emacs key binding to do that.
> 
> Not sure what "that" refers to in this last sentence.
> The proposal is just to add the above paragraph (or something similar)
> to the docstring of select-window to clarify that select-window doesn't
> affect frame focus.

My misunderstanding, sorry.

But if the issue is documentation, why not show a proposed patch?
That'd make clear what is being proposed, because discussing
documentation changes without a concrete proposal is not an efficient
way of making such decisions.