Re: How to determine (from Elisp) whether the Emacs frame has focus?

[tomas]

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:05:11PM -0800, John Mastro wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> > I'd like to know whether the selected Emacs frame has focus.  Currently,
> > I'm using an xdotool/xprop combo (I'm on GNU/Linux), but I'd like to
> > know whether there is a better way.  I know about focus-in-hook and
> > focus-out-hook, and I could make them set/unset some global variable,
> > but this looks hackish.
> 
> Not that I can tell.
> 
> I'm not sure if it would end up less hackish, but an alternative to
> global variables might be to use frame parameters. See the info nodes
> "(Elisp) Frame Parameters" and "(Elisp) Parameter Access".

To be more specific, the function selected-frame (Info menu Frames / submenu
Input Focus) gives you the selected frame.

Thanks, Jon for prompting me to read manuals and learn something :)

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