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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 13:26:53 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 47969@debbugs.gnu.org, robert@capuchin.co.uk
> 
> 
> > 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."?

I don't think so, because the selection will be after the user exits
minibuffer?  Or what am I missing?