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List:       nedit-develop
Subject:    Re: background open (was Re: Tabs comments)
From:       Tony Balinski <ajbj () free ! fr>
Date:       2004-03-29 1:04:20
Message-ID: 1080522260.406776145773d () imp3-q ! free ! fr
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Quoting Joerg Fischer <jf505@gmx.de>:

> >Fair enough. But I would like to have focus_window() raise its
> >document as (at least) macros treat it as the "current document".
> >And, if this behaviour is added to focus_window(), is there any
> >point in keeping raise_window()? I don't see a scenario where that
> >would be particularly useful.
> 
> I don't know. I use focus_window() alot to let macros doing their
> job on multifile documents, and I certainly don't want to raise a
> window to the foreground, if some macro does some background job in
> it - such as simply looking for something: 
> 
> Suppose I want to look through a multifile document searching for a
> paticular label or listing all labels in a list_dialog - in no case
> I see any reason for *having* to give focus and to raise x windows
> before the thing I'm looking for is found in window x+1, or to
> subsequently give input focus and to raise all windows, just because
> I'd like to see a list_dialog with label names displayed for the
> window I am working in (not all the other windows) to choose the
> label name in the list_dialog and let it insert in the current
> file.
> 
> Or just a simple save-all-opened-files macro - do you really want
> to raise all the windows just because you like to quickly save
> everything?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg

Good point. I concede!

Tony
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