On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Tony Mechelynck
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 15/02/09 09:59, Matt Wozniski wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>> To give a window focus by one mouse-click without moving its cursor:
>>> - either click its titlebar (if visible)
>>> - or click its taskbar icon (which is normally always visible).
>>
>> Wow!  Does this work in other applications too!?
>>
>>> This applies to any window, not only Vim.
>>
>> It does!?  Well, golly gee whiz, I wish I'd known!
>
> I suppose you're kidding.

Naturally.  My point was simply this: Dominique pointed out a possible
reason why one might choose not to use :set mouse=a, and I mentioned
that the very thing he named might be the reason that some people I
know choose not to enable the mouse in normal mode.  You responded by
assuming that either Dominique or I were too stupid to know that there
were other ways to give a window focus.

>>> (Clicking _inside_ any window
>>> will usually move its cursor, if there is one, to wherever you clicked,
>>> or if you clicked after the end of a line, to the end of that line.)
>>
>> But what if your windows have no titlebar, and you don't have a
>> taskbar!?  If only there other ways to focus windows without moving
>> the cursor in them!
>
> Mine all have, and I do. What window manager do you use? (I use KDE on
> Linux, and the standard Windows display also has them.)

I don't particularly mind if you think I'm an idiot, but sending
messages such as "here's how you use your window manager, dummy"
should probably be kept off-list.  I doubt anyone reading a technical
mailing list will benefit from them, least of all one of the people
with a history of submitting patches and solving problems.

~Matt

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