On Dec 24, 2007 6:32 AM, Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:30:52PM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Note that this is not quite satisfactory to me because the raise-frame
> > and the make-frame-visible are both redundant and insufficient.
>
> You lost me there.  .emacs is only run at startup, after which the
> window manager can do anything it wants with the positioning and
> visibility of the frames - or was that your point?
>
> > Which is why I need the wmctrl. Which is why I need the bash -c.
>
> Right.  I'm using -c as well.
>

The requirement is this: I should be able to -- with a single keystroke --
to get from any application into emacs into org mode.  However
make-frame-visible and raise-frame dont quite work: If emacs is iconized it
gets de-iconized but if it is already one of the open windows below some
other -- firefox, shell, whatever -- it *remains under that with the emacs
tab blinking.* As a consequence Ive got to use the mouse (or shuffle through
Alt-Tab).

wmctrl does the job. But using it makes for two calls -- wmctrl and
emacsclient -- and that makes for a packaging under a (inline) shell-script.



> If anyone finds a way of streamlining this please post it!
>
> If it's the -c you don't like, you can always dump the commands in a
> script.  That's nice because it gives you more breathing space to do
> things like error checking on the exit code of the wmctrl.
>
>
What I dont like is having to use a shell call for some functionality that
is almost certainly available under elisp.