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24.3; feature-request: add window-focus-lost-hook

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15029 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmol <at> gmx.com
Subject: bug#15029: 24.3; feature-request: add window-focus-lost-hook
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:38:10 -0400

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    To me, It seems a perfectly reasonable request to want Emacs do certain
    things (eg save all files) when it loses input focus.

That is a bizarre thing to do.  The right way to handle this is auto-save,
which operates whether you change focus or not, and doesn't alter the
files someone else will really look at.

There is no accounting for tastes, but I don't think a questionable
feature should be installed so people can do something so strange.

    As for debugging, same procedure as always: does it happen with emacs -Q?
    If not, it's something in your config, so bisect .emacs until you find
    the line that causes it.

I don't think you understand the problem.  The problem is how to debug
a program when switching windows to the debugger triggers it to do
something.


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