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authorLuc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>2004-07-04 18:23:20 +0000
committerLuc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>2004-07-04 18:23:20 +0000
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(Input Focus): Add documentation for `select-frame-set-input-focus'.
Replace refs to non-existent `switch-frame' with `select-frame'. Minor corrections and tidying up of text-only terminal stuff. From Alan Mackenzie.
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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002
+@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
@setfilename ../info/frames
@@ -996,19 +996,28 @@ This function returns the selected frame.
Some window systems and window managers direct keyboard input to the
window object that the mouse is in; others require explicit clicks or
commands to @dfn{shift the focus} to various window objects. Either
-way, Emacs automatically keeps track of which frame has the focus.
+way, Emacs automatically keeps track of which frame has the focus. To
+switch to a different frame from a lisp function, call
+@code{select-frame-set-input-focus}.
Lisp programs can also switch frames ``temporarily'' by calling the
function @code{select-frame}. This does not alter the window system's
concept of focus; rather, it escapes from the window manager's control
until that control is somehow reasserted.
-When using a text-only terminal, only the selected terminal frame is
-actually displayed on the terminal. @code{switch-frame} is the only way
-to switch frames, and the change lasts until overridden by a subsequent
-call to @code{switch-frame}. Each terminal screen except for the
-initial one has a number, and the number of the selected frame appears
-in the mode line before the buffer name (@pxref{Mode Line Variables}).
+When using a text-only terminal, only one frame can be displayed at a
+time on the terminal, so @code{select-frame} actually displays the
+newly selected frame. This frame remains displayed until a subsequent
+call to @code{select-frame} or @code{select-frame-set-input-focus}.
+Each terminal frame has a number which appears in the mode line before
+the buffer name (@pxref{Mode Line Variables}).
+
+@defun select-frame-set-input-focus frame
+This function makes @var{frame} the selected frame, raises it (should
+it happen to be obscured by other frames) and tries to give it the X
+server's focus. On a text-only terminal, the new frame gets displayed
+on the entire terminal screen.
+@end defun
@c ??? This is not yet implemented properly.
@defun select-frame frame