Re: Detect window switches?

[Joost Kremers]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a way in Emacs to detect a window switch? Basically, I'd like
>> to perform an action when a window showing a particular buffer gains or
>> loses focus. Is there a hook or something that exposes this to Elisp?
>
> have a look at: window-configuration-change-hook
> I guess you will have to filter the exact condition yourself.

Mmm, the documentation of that hook says that "[t]he buffer-local part
of this hook is run once for each window on the affected frame,
with the relevant window selected and its buffer current." That doesn't
seem to leave much room for determining if the relevant window has just
lost focus.


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