bug#47969: 28.0.50; Losing minibuffer focus in trying M-x command

[Gregory Heytings]

> > What I would do to narrow the possible effect is to replace the
> >
> > (window-minibuffer-p)
> >
> > in my patch with
> >
> > (and mouse-autoselect-window (window-minibuffer-p))
> >
> > Would you agree with that?
>
> Yes, this is better.  But I wonder if we can do better yet.  I see that 
> we already have machinery in place to delay auto-selection for some 
> reason or other -- can we use this feature in this case, perhaps? See 
> mouse-autoselect-window-state and its users.  Perhaps we can delay the 
> auto-selection until after the key sequence started by ESC is processed?

Would doing that not contradict the docstring of mouse-autoselect-window, 
which says: "Autoselection [...] never unselects the minibuffer if it is 
active."?