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To: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>
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Subject: Re: Keyboard focus policy (was Re: 19.15b92 - Pure storage exhausted) 
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>>>>> "CT" == Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org> writes:

    CT> Have fun and be careful.  I'm sure Ben would love to tell you
    CT> the joys of trying to make focus work.  You look at it and
    CT> just see a tangled mess of broken code and don't have a clue
    CT> how much effort has been put in to trying to make it do
    CT> something sensible.  Getting it right is incredibly difficult
    CT> bordering on impossible because X sucks, ICCCM isn't always
    CT> clear and no one agrees on what right is.

I never meant to denigrate the work that folks have already put into
it.  I apologize for sounding like I was!

It's certainly improved a lot since the early days of multiple
frames.  I think XEmacs is nearly there.

