GNU bug report logs - #12840
24.2.50; ediff: mode-line of control buffer - improvement request

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:30:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.2.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 12840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12840: 24.2.50; ediff: mode-line of control buffer - improvement request
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 13:51:42 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> 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.

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