GNU bug report logs - #14604
24.3.50.1; Possibly incorrect behaviour of frame-selected-window

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50.1

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 14604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14604: 24.3.50.1;
 Possibly incorrect behaviour of frame-selected-window
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:02:01 +0300

> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:45:54 +0100
> From: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>
> 
> 
> [1:text/plain Hide]
> 
> This works on 24.3, but on trunk all windows will be shown as "selected".
> 
> (setq-default
>  mode-line-format
>  '(:eval (if (eq (frame-selected-window)
>                  (selected-window))
>              "selected"
>              "not-selected")))
> 
> I don't know which behavior is correct, but being able to find which is the
> "really" selected window would be nice.

When the mode-line format is evaluated, Emacs makes its window the
selected window.  If it didn't, how could it show values for that
window in the mode line?
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