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29.0.50; 'yes-or-no-p' deselects minibuffer frame

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 56305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56305: 29.0.50; 'yes-or-no-p' deselects minibuffer frame
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:04:27 -0400

martin rudalics [2022-07-19 10:09:33] wrote:
>> And of course we also need (3) Emacs wants to change the selected frame
>> without touching anything related to focus because it's just a temporary
>> change to run code in another context.
> "Of course"?  If I have a window or frame that I usually never want to
> become selected, evaluating 'mode-line-format' will mercilessly tell me
> that that window or frame is the selected one.

I don't see any conflict between what I wrote and what you wrote.
The `selected-window` is just like the `current-buffer`: a context
passed around, like a set of default arguments.

The fact that it can also influence focus is not related to the
evaluation of the mode-line-format.


        Stefan

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