Re: mouse-autoselect-window

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> I disagree.  I'm running Emacs on GNU/Linux under KDE, I have a
>>> click-to-focus policy but also have mouse-autoselect-window set to t,
>>> because I want to have autoselection between split windows within a
>>> single frame.  I also observe the same behavior that Drew Adams
>>> described.
>> 
>> Seems like a bug, indeed.  Could you try the attached patch (against
>> Emacs_22_BASE) with `focus-follows-mouse' nil and
>> `mouse-autoselect-window' non-nil?

> I don't have Emacs_22_BASE but the patch applied cleanly to window.el
> in the released Emacs 22.1.  However, I see no difference to the
> behavior without the patch: with mouse-autoselect-window set to t and
> focus-follows-mouse set to nil, moving the mouse over a non-focussed
> frame still changes the mode-line face and the tool bar of its
> windows, just as in the focussed frame.

Have you recompiled the window.el file?
Have you re-dumped Emacs in the mean time?


        Stefan