GNU bug report logs - #2932
call-interactively wrongly calls mouse-leave-buffer-hook

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:25:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 2932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 2932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2932: call-interactively wrongly calls mouse-leave-buffer-hook
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:00:41 +0200

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 23:15, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> wrote:

> In call-interactively (callint.c L~449), whilst processing `@' ("switch
> to the window the mouse was clicked in") in an interactive string, the
> code runs the hook `mouse-leave-buffer-hook'.
>
> The code HASN'T CHECKED that this new window is different from the
> current window, and even if it is, whether the new window is displaying
> a different buffer.  Hence the hook is wrongly invoked when the mouse is
> clicked in the current window.

The trunk still behaves as you describe.

As a first pass, we should fix the docstring of
`mouse-leave-buffer-hook'. It seems wrong for the docstring of a hook
with "leave-buffer" in its name to talk about windows and not say a
word about buffers...

    Juanma
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