Ken:
There are a lot of things to like about Aquamacs, and its creator David
Reitter deserves high praise as of course do the Emacs creators on whose
shoulders he stands. The problem we have raised here is, for the present
at least, the only complaint I have about Aquamacs. And there is
probably a quick fix. When you have several separate Aquamacs frames
(windows) open simultaneously, the current focus (that is, where your
typing will go) is the frame where the cursor is blinking. There is
probably a system variable whose setting determines obviousness of the
cursor. I haven't found it yet but I haven't looked very hard.
If for some reason I ever do want to change editors, I'm tempted to try
Bluefish. It was recommended for Clojure editing by ramsa...@comcast.net
on this mailing list just yesterday.
--Larry
On 3/13/11 3:23 PM, Ken Wesson wrote:
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Larry Travis<tra...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
Ken:
Your question is an interesting one. My answer may serve as a word to the
wise: I do my Clojure source-code editing in Emacs (actually Aquamacs, but
the difference is not important for what I am saying here). As any Emacs
user knows, when one has several Emacs frames (windows) in action and is
hurriedly (and maybe also carelessly) moving back and forth among them, he
sometimes starts typing for a change he wants to make in one frame when the
point (cursor) is actually sitting in a frame different from the one in
which he intends to be making the change. Usually, such a false start can
quickly be caught and corrected, but I suspect that in this case I made such
a false start and didn't fully correct for it.
Your typing *should* be going to the cursor in the currently focused
(generally frontmost) window. If that does not happen with Aquamacs,
then your editor is tripping you up. :) (My own experience is with vi
and various Windows editors. To have multiple vi windows one tends to
make multiple term windows. As long as the terminal emulator handles
focus appropriately vi can't cause problems like this. :))
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