[ESS-bugs] Help focus does not honor focus-follows-mouse/mouse-autoselect-window

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Thu Aug 22 20:01:07 CEST 2013


On 08/14/2013 11:22 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Here's a bug I just noticed in 13.05-1 [rev. 5712 (2013-08-11)]
>
> If you have focus-follows-mouse and mouse-autoselect-window set to t,
> then ask for help in an *R* buffer, i.e.
>  > ?setwd
>
> The help buffer steals focus permanently instead of surrendering it
> to mouse movement; you need to physically click in the *R*
> buffer to restore the focus following the mouse.  C-c C-d C-d
> behaves similarly.  Is there some way that we can respect
> the user's settings of focus-follows-mouse/mouse-autoselect-window
> in this common help/*R* buffer arrangement?

Should I just put this in the TODO list?

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Rodney Sparapani, PhD
Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations
Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
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