bug#47969: 28.0.50; Losing minibuffer focus in trying M-x command

[Gregory Heytings]

> I've been finding - in last 12 months - that sometimes when I do M-x and 
> type something the cursor has moved to the main window in that frame, 
> and the desired command ends up in that window if it is a 'normal' 
> buffer or does more drastic things if (for example) in dired.
>
> from Ch l in one of these cases
> <escape> <select-window> x           ;; execute-extended-command
> ;; handle-select-window
> g                                        ;; revert-buffer
> n                                        ;; dired-next-line
> u                                        ;; dired-unmark
> s                                        ;; dired-sort-toggle-or-edit
>
> you'll see that my intention of typing M-x gnus has been subverted and 
> the commands are happening in a dired buffer!
>
> I have (setq mouse-autoselect-window 1) but I don't think I'm pausing 
> long enough (and it doesn't see to kick in anyway from a minibuffer) 
> that handle-select-window is clearly the problem but not sure where it 
> is coming from, and it is happening very rarely so I'd prefer not to set 
> a break there.

Thanks for your bug report.  I could not reproduce what you describe alas; 
could you perhaps try to create a recipe, starting with emacs -Q, with 
which the bug you experience is triggered?