GNU bug report logs - #43996
26.3; Please document frame parameter `modeline' in the Elisp manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:12:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 26.3

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 43996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 43996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#43996: 26.3; Please document frame parameter `modeline' in
 the Elisp manual
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:23:48 -0700 (PDT)

> No, it doesn't.  Did you actually have a real-life use case where that
> parameter was needed and useful to your Lisp program?

Maybe.  How to know, without knowing what it does
or is supposed to do?

> > I couldn't find where this is used in the Lisp code, so I guess it's
> > used in C code.
> 
> This parameter doesn't really exist, it's an illusion.

Then could you please remove this "illusion" from what
users see and can manipulate in Lisp?
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