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mouse-autoselect-window causes loss of messages from echo area |
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:53:25 -0700 (PDT) |
I'm using Emacs on X on Debian 6 Stable. emacs-version says GNU Emacs 23.2.1
(i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by
Debian.
Steps to reproduce the bug (or maybe it's an intentional feature, but if so, I
don't see the purpose):
Put just the following in your .emacs file:
(setq mouse-autoselect-window t)
Start Emacs with no options.
Press C-g.
Move your mouse pointer across the echo area. Emacs erases "Quit". The desired
behavior is to not erase the text; I routinely inadvertently move the pointer
across the echo area when moving the pointer to another window (of the window
manager, not of Emacs), and when I go back to Emacs, I then have to switch to
*Messages* to see what the last message was, rather than just looking at the
echo area. Disabling mouse-autoselect-window to avoid the bug isn't an option;
the feature is too useful.
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Re: bug#11304: mouse-autoselect-window causes loss of messages from echo area |
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:18:08 +0200 |
> This looks right, thank you,
Installed in the trunk together with the change in
`handle-select-window'. If we decide that we don't want the latter, for
example, because we don't like "Clearing the minibuffer/echo-area for
global indicators", we can remove it at any time.
martin
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