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RE: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string?


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:14:21 -0700

> Hmm... so now we need to figure out whyh my code works differently
> from your.  Maybe it's just a silly bug in my code, but maybe there's
> something deeper.
> 
> > Perhaps someone else on Windows can try it also, to confirm, but
> > that's what I see.
> 
> I believe you.

I believe me too, but I can make mistakes. It would be good if someone would
confirm this behavior on Windows, before we try to fix problems that might not
exist.

> > I see. Do you think that's a problem, in practice, for this 
> > particular command (which several of us even advised tossing out)?
> 
> I'm talking here about fixing display-buffer not just
> display-buffer-other-frame.

Oh, right.

> > If it's important to you that the initially selected window 
> > not have its frame raised, then perhaps another function is
> > needed - a function like `select-frame-set-input-focus',
> > but which doesn't raise the frame. Or perhaps
> > add an optional arg to `select-frame-set-input-focus' to 
> > express that alternative behavior.
> 
> Maybe, maybe not: maybe the raise is the part that makes it work.
> That's what I'm trying to figure out.

Ah, yes, that's possible.





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