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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 14:43:01 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 47969@debbugs.gnu.org, robert@capuchin.co.uk
> 
> Indeed, with that understanding there is no contradiction.  But what 
> "autoselection [...] never unselects the minibuffer if it is active" means 
> in practice is that autoselection is disabled while the minibuffer is 
> active.  If you M-x, move the mouse to another window, type a command and 
> RET, no autoselection happens.  I'm not sure that the complexity of what 
> you suggest is worth the price for this specific case (ESC x instead of 
> M-x), given what the behavior is with M-x.

I'm not sure either, but let's hear Martin at least, and I hope Lars
as well, on that idea.

If we eventually go back to your last proposal, I think it would be
slightly better to test that the selection was invoked via
select-window "key", instead of testing the mode.