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26.3; ediff-buffers appears to have a focus issue

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From: Matthew Persico <matthew.persico <at> gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 37390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37390: 26.3; ediff-buffers appears to have a focus issue
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:37:56 -0400

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Good grief:  https://stackoverflow.com/a/1680998/1830614

For YEARS I've been using a separate frame for control. I'll just toggle
that off. No issues with that in 26.2. I will try in 26.3. And now that I
see it, why the heck would you want a separate frame? To have multiple
diffs going at the same time?

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 12:46 PM Matthew Persico <matthew.persico <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well... <insert Gilder Radner Never Mind gif here>
>
> I went back to 26.2 and lo and behold, I have a focus issue. Musts be some
> part of the env in my rebuilt VM. Sigh. Feel free to close this issue. If
> anyone has any suggestions as to what to look for, I would be most
> appreciative.
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:38 PM Matthew Persico <matthew.persico <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am testing at work with a totally dpkged environment with chef doing
>> the maintenance. I turned off the chef stuff last week so that it wouldn’t
>> re-overwrite my 26.3 deb file. I’ll turn chef on, downgrade to 26.2, turn
>> off chef, test, install 26.3, test and report back. That should keep the
>> environment consistent between the two emacs versions.  I’ll also send
>> along a list of all the debs and the yums. Yeah we configure our vms as
>> redhat 7.3 or 4 or 5 ( I’ll look tomorrow) and then all the stuff we build
>> is in dpkg (because we have to support Solaris and aix too); I would prefer
>> not to identify my employer so please don’t ask. Or comment. :-)
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 04:26 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>>>  > But I faintly recall that I changed something
>>>  > in this area a few years ago and that subsequently Stefan had problems
>>>  > with his minibuffer in a separate frame setup.
>>>
>>> The change I mentioned there was for Bug#24500 and Stefan's complaint
>>> is in Bug#24803.  I doubt these are related to your switch from Emacs
>>> 26.2 to 26.3.  Did you, when you performed that switch, upgrade other
>>> parts of your environment too?  And if so, can you try once more with
>>> Emacs 26.2?
>>>
>>> martin
>>>
>> --
>> Matthew O. Persico
>>
>
>
> --
> Matthew O. Persico
>


-- 
Matthew O. Persico

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