speedbar and minibuffer-auto-raise

[David Reitter]

When minibuffer-auto-raise is t, the speedbar becomes pretty much  
unsuable.
Because the speedbar frame doesn't have its own minibuffer window,  
another frame gets raised whenever you hover over something in the  
speedbar with the mouse.

I've tried doing what's shown below (setting a frame-local value for  
minibufffer-auto-raise), to no avail. Seems like this local value is  
being ignored.

I wonder why minibuffer-auto-raise has to apply to "some uses of the  
echo area" (as documented), and not just when there is a prompt in  
the minibuffer waiting for input. The latter might make more sense in  
terms of usability...

(Is there some hook I can use to raise the frame when there's a  
prompt? minibuffer-setup-hook didn't seem to do the job last time  
I've tried.)





(setq minibuffer-auto-raise t)

(defun autoraise-off-if-no-minibuffer (frame)
  (print (frame-parameter frame 'minibuffer))
  (and
   (not (memq (frame-parameter frame 'minibuffer)
          (list 'only t)
          )
    )
   (make-variable-frame-local 'minibuffer-auto-raise)
   (modify-frame-parameters frame '((minibuffer-auto-raise)))
   )
  )
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'autoraise-off-if-no-minibuffer)










In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
 of 2005-06-04 on madonna - Aquamacs Distribution 0.9.2 beta-8
Distributor `Apple Computers' version (10 4 1) .
configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
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  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
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  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
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Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
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  cua-mode: t
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  smart-frame-positioning-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  osx-key-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
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  menu-bar-mode: t
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  blink-cursor-mode: t
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  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
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  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
p p ) <down> <down> <down> <down> C-x C-e <switch-frame> <mouse- 
movement> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <mouse-movement> <switch- 
frame> <switch-frame> <mouse-movement> <switch-frame> <switch-frame>  
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <menu-bar> <options> <showhide> <showhide- 
speedbar> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1>  
<mouse-1> SPC ( p r i n t SPC f r a m e ) H-s <down-mouse-1>  
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-e  
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <mouse-movement> <switch-frame> <switch- 
frame> <mouse-movement> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>  
<switch-frame> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse- 
movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> SPC <down-mouse-1> <mouse- 
movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <H- 
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mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag- 
mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <double-down- 
mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <double-drag-mouse-1> H-c  
H-s H-s <switch-frame> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report- 
emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
autoraise-off-if-no-minibuffer

nil

yupp

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