GNU bug report logs - #18233
24.3.92; Use of (frame-selected-window) in mode-line-format

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Christopher Schmidt <ch <at> ristopher.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:19:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.92

Done: Christopher Schmidt <ch <at> ristopher.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Christopher Schmidt <ch <at> ristopher.com>
To: 18233-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18233: 24.3.92;
 Use of (frame-selected-window) in mode-line-format
Date: Sat,  9 Aug 2014 18:22:06 -0400 (EDT)

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> So we won't go back to the old behavior.  Instead we should provide
> a new feature for that.  IIRC you can currently do it by hand with
> something like:
>
> (add-function :before pre-redisplay-function
>               (lambda (_) (setq my-selected-window (selected-window))))
>
> and then compare (deleted-window) to my-selected-window in your
> mode-line-format.

Works great.  Thanks a lot!
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