[TxMt] Re: "Half focused" windows bug

[Ed Wong]

I get this occasionally as well and can fix this by switching back and forth between apps.

Ed

> On Jan 13, 2017, at 5:54 PM, Graham Heath <graham.p.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> I’m regularly experiencing a bug where TextMate seems to receive partial focus. The title bar will appear to be selected, but the tabs never come into focus. 
> 
> Please see https://imgur.com/a/ePa4j <https://imgur.com/a/ePa4j> for screenshots.
> 
> In this "half focus" mode I can select, enter and delete text, but not select, copy, paste or do many other things. Cmd-c and Cmd-v both cause the system bell to ding. I can switch focused TextMate windows, but the "half focus" window title bar remains focused, and the tabs never get selected.
> 
> I still haven’t found a reliable way to reproduce this.
> 
> I have 2 theories about what is happening;
> 
>    1) Its related to some ongoing process, such as a linter still running in the background or the code highlighting for complex code. This seems relevant because I work some days without encountering the issue, others I run into it many times. Its possible that the offensive days I have more windows, or a more difficult to parse file open.
> 
>    2) Its related to multiple displays. I’m on a MBP15in from early 2013 with a display hooked up over thunderbolt or hdmi. It does seem that its much easier to reproduce this bug with a second display.
> 
> Perhaps there’s a combination of 1 and 2?
> 
> For a while I was switching between apps to get "full focus"; Switch from Chrome to TextMate (get "half focus"), switch to Finder, switch to Chrome, switch to TextMate (get "full focus").
> 
> Seems that if no one else is having the issue, its probably #1 and related to my custom bundles.
> 
> Whatever the cause, hiding TextMate with Cmd+H and restoring it seems to cause "full focus" reliably.
> 
> Is this making sense? Is there anything I can do to help debug?
> 
> This weekend I’ll try reverting to defaults and see if that helps. In the mean time, what do you all think?
> 
> Thanks a million,
> 
> Graham Heath
> 
> 
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