From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:35:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document focus-follows-mouse. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~16553 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93d177d5c4b92e7b37dd23fae46fe1c365f208ef;p=emacs.git Document focus-follows-mouse. --- diff --git a/man/frames.texi b/man/frames.texi index 9103a00b0bc..ae6bfcd506a 100644 --- a/man/frames.texi +++ b/man/frames.texi @@ -486,6 +486,18 @@ frames on your terminal. Delete all frames except the selected one. @end table +@vindex focus-follows-mouse + To make the command @kbd{C-x 5 o} work properly, you must tell Emacs +how the system (or the window manager) generally handles +focus-switching between windows. There are two possibilities: either +simply moving the mouse onto a window selects it (gives it focus), or +you have to click on it in a suitable way to do so. Unfortunately +there is no way Emacs can find out automatically which way the system +handles this, so you have to explicitly say, by setting the variable +@code{focus-follows-mouse}. If just moving the mouse onto a window +selects it, that variable should be @code{t}; if a click is necessary, +the variable should be @code{nil}. + @node Speedbar @section Making and Using a Speedbar Frame @cindex speedbar