Mercurial > emacs
changeset 43438:26a4fefad579
Document focus-follows-mouse.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:35:56 +0000 |
| parents | 55d255989f05 |
| children | dffc7bf6189c |
| files | man/frames.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/frames.texi Wed Feb 20 22:33:35 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/frames.texi Wed Feb 20 22:35:56 2002 +0000 @@ -486,6 +486,18 @@ Delete all frames except the selected one. @end table +@vindex focus-follows-mouse + To make the command @kbd{C-x 5 o} work properly, you must tell Emacs +how the system (or the window manager) generally handles +focus-switching between windows. There are two possibilities: either +simply moving the mouse onto a window selects it (gives it focus), or +you have to click on it in a suitable way to do so. Unfortunately +there is no way Emacs can find out automatically which way the system +handles this, so you have to explicitly say, by setting the variable +@code{focus-follows-mouse}. If just moving the mouse onto a window +selects it, that variable should be @code{t}; if a click is necessary, +the variable should be @code{nil}. + @node Speedbar @section Making and Using a Speedbar Frame @cindex speedbar