GNU bug report logs - #16874
24.3.50; Regression in active window detection

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Damien Cassou <damien.cassou <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Donald Curtis <d <at> milkbox.net>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 16874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, damien.cassou <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#16874: 24.3.50; Regression in active window detection
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:25:11 -0500

> so the code I had written was able to detect whether the mode-line was
> being displayed in the active window or not.

IIUC your old code was not correct in some circumstance (maybe in the
presence of multiple frames, can't remember), but indeed the change in
Emacs-24.4 (which was made to fix another problem) breaks such hacks.

The best I can offer so far goes along the following lines:

1- use post-command-hook (or better yet pre-redisplay-function) to set
   a global variable `my-selected-window'.
2- use that variable instead of (selected-window) in your modeline :eval code.


        Stefan
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