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29.0.60; delete-frame will raise frames in another virtual desktop

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From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
To: 61525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: justksqsf <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#61525: 29.0.60; delete-frame will raise frames in another virtual desktop
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:41:41 +0100

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Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

>
> One downside of removing raise_frame is that, after you press C-x 5 0,
> you cannot start typing right away without first focusing on another
> Emacs frame manually.  People would consider this a regression from
> previous versions and something that doesn't happen on GNU/Linux.
>
> A possibly better approach could be:
>
> Once the "other" frame to select is chosen by the code that is just
> above in frame.c, call some Obj-C code that extracts the EmacsView and
> makes it the first responder:
>
> EmacsView *view = FRAME_NS_VIEW (frame1);
> [self makeFirstResponder:view];
>
> I haven't tested this, but perhaps this makes the other frame receive
> focus without switching desktops in a multi-desktop configuration.

The attached patch avoids the unwanted side effects of raise-frame by
making the other frame the key window, instead.  Could you give it a
try?

[0001-NS-Do-not-raise-a-different-frame-when-closing-a-fra.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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