For the one time you might want to know what window you’ve selected, and not the
window select-window reports: when evaluating the mode-line.
I’ll just quote Stefan’s answer from an old Stack Overflow question:
While the mode-line-format is evaluated for a given window, this window is temporarily made the selected-window. In Emacs<=24.3 this was made only halfway: selected-window was changed, but not frame-selected-window. This meant that temporarily (frame-selected-window) was not equal to (selected-window) and breaking this (normally) invariant was a source of various corner case bugs. So we fixed it in 24.4, which means that your code broke.
I took some code from another answer to that question, and code from this blog post from Occasionally Cogent, and wrapped it up in a mode. Simple.
Clone this repository and put it in your load-path somewhere, then require as normal.
- Enable
actually-selected-window-modein your init file. - In your modeline, or wherever you need to know what window is actually
selected (i.e., selected by the user), call
actually-selected-window-p.
Pull requests and issues, as always, are welcome!
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