From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12840: 24.2.50; ediff: mode-line of control buffer - improvement request Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 02:02:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87ee11ylzj.fsf@web.de> References: <87mwys0zrv.fsf@web.de> <875ymdk2sm.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7084"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 12840@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 02:04:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1noZps-0001Zt-IS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 11 May 2022 02:02:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <875ymdk2sm.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 10 May 2022 14:08:57 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:YLNEYeEPrtjB+udQiNWwc6yEebXb0dMwUMbjZ2eSHnEw4NV1HBc DlAg8Ae4jK5XnG1heI3h2Bfj1JMnUlso+dPhNFh/JMtroQYksfiTx0aqEkAJHsFbbzhEhR/ kKxMOREiYE8Y0tKIhpTWHfuiD5+BmGfsxI31NkgoVWNlOPSimfHxsLyK0mkaQNpPTt1/KDz KGlGKCQOQvaEuCkr3At5Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:QF/0wWzTths=:gqzSnD3QViuF6fOhuTH1En QbSrrF9rY8klsIn3kO3j4PEmlz4XykCuWQIvDe7sRqI53TL/g0d0E4wsJEblhTmuCDjPZZSLq pznKRStdOfG+H+gB7zC+gDzUJtqy5WYuL2aEksqhYHpd6TKNo0Ke2Pv9XVwBhZFbdnV9Jrp2B Q2/QyNhEifYaLnDYAR8T59jMY0JkTkvl6Bt+/3khnA8r/m3IQkU1ZNDVNh49A7TMOe1rWhGbe /lw/LSU9m+X2wezXsk80NfbiR5T3SwvrT0y2tFy3GMKHjDtY1SGhvHVNeQ3YAgkS5KfhoNBGX wBIoKlaIJcUHPWaU2Qc10MUFC7XzUx9FxRma7aJrDL0C+5tkvGv0T/MXlQCAj6KJYF6lOO6zA lqGuvqk/YayHGfaE4JIclJ3+e2GEuZgPurrrbYcP+W++Zfsfh8HjLwu+K1D2wABcVQqFIRTCv 8ruS8A/zAiBiIYuPKoVxsuXexgQloLBi3uxG7/WzPIBymzWJ2q+1aEnwdaJFfr90mE0aw99MA Fqn85Dg2I6rAlKW7Uv/8bAybugyyeeOO1GRICfH6ZpU/Y2LRy0GHif/51Vto7fx961ZKpaIBl BWLFR+2J3gjm9J1Ck0F5UJSRbDYOqMHYnm3HFhmhycBWo/U75r4U12xaR8awGVx+E0LnOucPa b5+Qw/S5EKB4XZudpSQdzrluI9fHK9xe39Zo1YRosROf9iMC/5RjjMe3Qlr7iM9vwsWdh0Nqi uFtB1auOPNqt/jRuEuiMI9hW5wCF9w6NgQVtSyNbZ4scdlVX7rHQoQg3Li+/gRu+W3iVUaBr X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:231873 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > I wouldn't mind making that bit bold, but it is somewhat unusual for > modes to do that. On the other and, there isn't really a lot of other > info in that mode line, so it wouldn't be distracting, either: > [screenshot] I can only speak for me. When looking at the mode line I want to see the diff numbers in nearly all cases, and I don't want distractions when using Ediff, so I made them outstanding (red). > > 2. What's the "Quick Help" part for? I don't see any use for it. It > > seems to be always present, but it doesn't indicate anything, and I > > cannot click on it. Also, if I didn't hit ? in the control buffer, the > > only content of this buffer already is "Type ? for help". > > The "Quick Help" bit has a popup that says what mouse-2 and mouse-3 > does, which seems somewhat helpful. But that's the same mouse tooltip as the rest of the mode-line of the control buffer has. Those mouse bindings are not "Quick Help" nor Ediff specific, they are the very basic bindings from mouse.el: (global-set-key [mode-line mouse-1] #'mouse-select-window) (global-set-key [mode-line mouse-2] #'mouse-delete-other-windows) (global-set-key [mode-line mouse-3] #'mouse-delete-window) No problem about the tooltip - but that doesn't explain why "Quick Help" is displayed. 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? Michael.