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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 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 18:49:28 +0300

> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 43996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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?

No, it's needed and sometimes useful, but not to readers of the Lisp
Reference manual.
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