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

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43996: 26.3; Please document frame parameter `modeline' in
 the Elisp manual
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:25:24 -0700

tags 43996 + notabug wontfix
close 43996
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

OK, that sounds to me like an official maintainer decision that we don't
want to document this parameter in the ELisp manual.

I'm consequently closing this bug report.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 235 days ago.

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