changeset 56371:48a83b7f435a

(Input Focus): Clarify descriptions of `select-frame-set-input-focus' and `select-frame'.
author Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>
date Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:41:53 +0000
parents dce4aada3bd3
children 500beada7df6
files lispref/frames.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/frames.texi	Wed Jul 07 01:13:55 2004 +0000
+++ b/lispref/frames.texi	Wed Jul 07 22:41:53 2004 +0000
@@ -1006,17 +1006,19 @@
 until that control is somehow reasserted.
 
 When using a text-only terminal, only one frame can be displayed at a
-time on the terminal, so @code{select-frame} actually displays the
-newly selected frame.  This frame remains displayed until a subsequent
-call to @code{select-frame} or @code{select-frame-set-input-focus}.
-Each terminal frame has a number which appears in the mode line before
-the buffer name (@pxref{Mode Line Variables}).
+time on the terminal, so after a call to @code{select-frame}, the next
+redisplay actually displays the newly selected frame.  This frame
+remains displayed until a subsequent call to @code{select-frame} or
+@code{select-frame-set-input-focus}.  Each terminal frame has a number
+which appears in the mode line before the buffer name (@pxref{Mode
+Line Variables}).
 
 @defun select-frame-set-input-focus frame
 This function makes @var{frame} the selected frame, raises it (should
 it happen to be obscured by other frames) and tries to give it the X
-server's focus.  On a text-only terminal, the new frame gets displayed
-on the entire terminal screen.
+server's focus.  On a text-only terminal, the next redisplay displays
+the new frame on the entire terminal screen.  The return value of this
+function is not significant.
 @end defun
 
 @c ??? This is not yet implemented properly.
@@ -1026,7 +1028,8 @@
 the next time the user does something to select a different frame, or
 until the next time this function is called.  The specified @var{frame}
 becomes the selected frame, as explained above, and the terminal that
-@var{frame} is on becomes the selected terminal.
+@var{frame} is on becomes the selected terminal.  This function
+returns @var{frame}, or @code{nil} if @var{frame} has been deleted.
 
 In general, you should never use @code{select-frame} in a way that could
 switch to a different terminal without switching back when you're done.