GNU bug report logs - #12218
24.2.50; vc-ediff: Pressing `n' moves focus away from ediff control panel

Previous Next

Full log

Message #29 received at 12218 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 12218 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#12218: 24.2.50;
	vc-ediff: Pressing `n' moves focus away from ediff control panel
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:40:20 +0300

>> If multiple-frames is problematic (on some machines) shouldn't the
>> default be modified to be just plain.
>
> If more people complained, this would probably happen.  But IIUC ediff
> is not very popular and largely unmaintained.
>
>> But, in that case, people like me, who are used to seeing the control
>> panel float to top-right, will complain that the defaults are changed
>> :-).
>
> Likely.  I've been told on this list that my one-frame setup for ediff
> is non-standard and any problems it causes "won't be a problem for most
> users" ;-)

If you are collecting statistics on ediff usage on a one-frame setup,
here is what I have in ~/.emacs:

(custom-set-variables
 '(ediff-split-window-function (quote split-window-horizontally))
 '(ediff-window-setup-function (quote ediff-setup-windows-plain))

I guess people are not complaining about bad defaults because
they have customized them already.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.