Change in Meta+a next active window logic

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• • • Issue Change in Meta+a next active window logic #667 opened by @jrabbit

Supposedly this setting has been changed before and now has gone full circle. A nice setting for this would be nice, one being the current setting of last activity the other being the previous behavior, going "left" to "right".

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• • • Comment 1042 by @coekie

Isn't that just /set actlist_sort level,recent ?

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• • • Comment 1049 by @lewellyn

No, /set actlist_sort level,recent manages to do "unusual" things to the Act: bar (well, not what most users expect, anyhow...), while leaving the behavior of active_window unchanged.

This was changed in Revision 4798: http://svn.irssi.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&root=irssi&revision=4798

Note that the support for refnum has been essentially yanked out.

The revision 4798 behavior is somewhat hostile to users who have large channel loads and purposely put the high-volume ones which aren't as actively-followed at the end of their window lists. This behavior keeps them "popping up" when we're really wanting to try to mostly keep track of the lower-volume channels which have more urgent stuff and are placed in lower-numbered channels.

Perhaps most-recently-active makes sense when you have only a dozen or so windows of low to moderate activity. But, when you get into the dozens with the gamut of activity, it isn't the most efficient method that I can think of. So, I second a configuration option. :)

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• • • Comment 1074 by @mmahut

  +1

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• • • Comment 1075 by @ricky

This is a pretty big change for me as well - it'd be great if there were an option to go back to the original behavior.

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• • • Comment 1091 by @ms

I've implemented a setting for this, active_window_ignore_refnum, which defaults to ON (current behavior).

My tree is at git://github.com/msparks/irssi.git and the branch containing this fix is 'bug-667'.

Commit with fix and description of option: http://github.com/msparks/irssi/commit/2f690e555034d5553bccb61fcc07c5e89c8e4302
Patch: http://github.com/msparks/irssi/commit/2f690e555034d5553bccb61fcc07c5e89c8e4302.diff

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• • • Closed by @jilles

added in r5096