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24.3.50; daemon freeze with tty menus

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Message #44 received at 16479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mvoteiza <at> udel.edu, 16479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16479: 24.3.50; daemon freeze with tty menus
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:17:03 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: mvoteiza <at> udel.edu,  16479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:28:42 -0500
> 
> >> Whatever we do, we should do it whether or not a tty menu is displayed.
> >> Switching frame inside a process filter is nasty but allowed.  So:
> >> - server.el should probably only change the selected frame temporarily and
> >> revert it before returning from the process filter.
> > But I think server.el does this on purpose: if it didn't switch to the
> > new frame, you couldn't start typing into it after invoking
> > emacsclient, even when there's no menu displayed.  Wouldn't that be
> > confusing?
> 
> I'm not sure it's the case.  The reason is that you're talking about
> a change of focus whereas the code changed the selected frame.  The two
> are related but the relation is very murky.
> 
> > Does the fact that you type into one frame and get response in another
> > count as "a bit strangely"?
> 
> Yes.

OK, then I know what to do.  Thanks.

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