[Matlab-emacs-discuss] Keeping focus when creating figures

[David C. <dav...@fr...>]

Hi all,

 

Quite some time ago, I had an offline discussion with Eric Ludlam about the
matlab-shell window loosing focus when you create a figure.

It sounds a bit cosmetic, but it really gets on my nerves, as you constantly
have to use the mouse to restore focus to your emacs frame.

 

It was a bit trial and error, but in the end he found a working solution, so
I thought I'd share that with you.

Basically all you have to do, is before starting matlab-shell, to evaluate
with (M-:) or (M-x M-e) the following:

 

(setenv "WINDOWID" (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'outer-window-id))

 

This one-liner can probably be added somewhere in matlab.el but I feel a
little lazy tonight, so I'll leave it to someone else to figure out where
that should be !

 

Hope that is useful. Enjoy !

David.