Subject: Re: bug#13225: 24.3.50; Non-selected window has not mode-line-inactive face

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:16:02 +0100

>> So we can be sure that redisplay now nowhere changes the selected frame
 >> or the selected window?
 >
 > No: it is still changed while computing the mode-line,

... and this is good because otherwise Lisp code would have problems to
get the window whose mode line shall be displayed, I presume ...

 > but that's been
 > the case for a long time now (the recent change in this area is to not
 > only change selected_frame and selected_window but also
 > selected_frame->selected_window so that we preserve the invariant that
 > selected_windows = selected_frame->selected_window).

... and while we compute the mode line we don't care whether
selected_frame->selected_window equals selected_window.  Wouldn't it be
more correct to handle this as in run_window_configuration_change_hook?

martin