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

[Vitalie Spinu]

Rodney, this is by design. See ess-help-pop-to-buffer.

 >>> Rodney Sparapani on Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:24:04 -0500 wrote:

 > 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?

 > Hi Gang:

 > Is there anything I can do to help get this in 13.09-1?  It is
 > getting distracting:  every other mode that I have tried behaves
 > itself.  That means that I am constantly fighting this because
 > I move the mouse without thinking so I keep getting bitten by
 > this bug.  Thanks