Re: Running this-command in another window

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> I am trying to run the current command in another window than the window 
> it was issued in. I do something like this in pre-command-hook:
>
>    (select-window my-desired-window)
>
> This actually seems to do what I want most of the times, but when the 
> command has something like
>
>   (interactive "sRegexp\nP")
>
> the regexp can't be read. The prompt is shown, but the input goes to the 
> buffer in my-desired-window.
>
> Is there any way to do what I want to do, ie run the command in 
> my-desired-window?


I have found the solution. The problem was switching back to previous 
window in post-command-hook. The post-command-hook is run after setting 
up the minibuffer prompt and for every character entered.

The solution was just to check for (active-minibuffer-prompt).