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current-buffer returns wrong value in X11 under OSX

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: drew.mcdermott <at> yale.edu
Cc: 5287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: current-buffer returns wrong value in X11 under OSX
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:00:37 +0200

Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott <at> yale.edu> writes:

> If more than one emacs frame is open in X11 under OS X (version 10.5),
> then (current-buffer) seems to return the most recently created
> visible buffer, not the one that currently has X focus, which is what
> the user expects.  This causes the menu-bar hooks to be unable to
> recalculate menu names based on which buffer is current.
>
> I never noticed this problem in emacs 21, so I conjecture that
> current-buffer worked correctly before version 22, but that's merely a
> conjecture.

Is this still a problem in a current Emacs version?

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