Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 6fdc3fa: Support terminal focus notifications

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think this deserves a comment explaining why we don't use the
>> pre-existing `focus-in` and `focus-out` events and why we bind our
>> events in global-map rather than in special-map (as is done for
>> `focus-in/out` events).
> I was being consistent with the xterm-paste event.  All three events should
> go in special-map if that's the right place, shouldn't they?  It doesn't
> seem to make a difference in this case.

BTW, I think it does make a difference: those events wouldn't work on
special-map because special-map is not looked up after input-decode-map.

So, I think ideally, we'd want to use special-map here, but for
technical reasons we can't.


        Stefan