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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Martin Buchholz writes:

> With focus-follows-mouse, consistency demands that the mouse pointer
> is always in the active X window.  Equally obvious is that functions
> like (find-file-other-frame) should set keyboard focus to the frame
> containing the visited file.  The only way to achieve both these
> eminently reasonable wishes is to warp the mouse to the newly selected
> frame.

Neither of these is any way in the *slightest*, `reasonable behavior'
to me.

> Captain Kirk never gets annoyed by being unexpectedly beamed up, if
> he is required first to chant the incantation "Beam me up, Scotty".

This is a *great* analogy.  I guess I'm McCoy then; he hates
transporters.
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