greg(a)alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes: Yup. From the outside, `set-frame-focus' would do what `select-frame' used to do. :-) Please do. (defmacro save-selected-frame (&rest body) "Execute forms in BODY, then restore the selected frame. The value returned is the value of the last form in BODY. The frame selection is not accompanied by changes to the actual window manager focus and is not affected by the value of `focus-follows-mouse'. See also `with-selected-frame'." (let ((old-frame (gensym "ssf"))) `(let ((,old-frame (selected-frame)) (focus-follows-mouse t)) (unwind-protect (progn ,＠body) (select-frame ,old-frame))))) The macro binds `focus-follows-mouse' to t to avoid focus flicker even if focus-follows-mouse is nil. There is a potential problem with code within BODY that might want to check focus-follows-mouse, but I don't think the problem is serious enough to be worth solving (it might be solved by introducing an `overriding-focus-follows-mouse' or something like that.) Here is an implementation of `with-selected-frame': (defmacro with-selected-frame (frame &rest body) "Execute forms in BODY with FRAME as the selected frame. The value returned is the value of the last form in BODY. The frame selection is not accompanied by changes to the actual window manager focus and is not affected by the value of `focus-follows-mouse'. See also `with-selected-frame'." `(save-selected-frame (select-frame ,frame) ,＠body)) If you like these, I'll send out a patch. I'll also expand the news entry to cover all this new stuff in some detail. No problem, that code can be added later. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- - Now what did we learn from this? - I learned what my liver looks like!