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

[Ondra K. <ond...@gm...>]

wow!

That was draining my nerves as well. Very useful!

BTW: the aggresivity of Matlab figures in stealing a focus is very anoying
not only when working in matlab-shell. So Eric if you know a general
mechanism to influence this, please, can you tell us?

ondra
On Oct 12, 2012 6:45 PM, "David Chappaz" <dav...@fr...> wrote:

>  Hi all,****
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> Quite some time ago, I had an offline discussion with Eric Ludlam about
> the matlab-shell window loosing focus when you create a figure.****
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> 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.****
>
> ** **
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> 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:****
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> (setenv "WINDOWID" (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'outer-window-id))***
> *
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> 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 !****
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> Hope that is useful. Enjoy !****
>
> David.****
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