Subject: Re: bug#12840: 24.2.50; ediff: mode-line of control buffer - improvement request

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:50:31 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> The "quick help" is what you get when you hit `?`.  Look: Without the
>>
>>   (setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain)
>>
>> setting, the control frame doesn't display a mode-line, but after
>> hitting `?` it does, and the "Quick Help" info gets visible.  My
>> interpretation is that 'ediff-setup-windows-plain has been added later,
>> after quick help, and the "Quick Help" string was never intended to be
>> visible all the time.  Plausible?
>
> Yes, that sounds likely to me.

I've now done these changes in Emacs 29 -- removed the "Quick Help"
thing with the plain setting, and made the informative parts bold (using
your suggested function).

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