From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation of tab-bar-show and friends
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:24:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kaxj0qo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mtoqrul8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:12:19 +0300")
> The current documentation of this seems to be incomplete and for some
> reason hides some of the functionality.
>
> First, the NEWS entry for tab-bar-show says:
>
> *** The tab bar is frame-local when 'tab-bar-show' is a number.
> Show/hide the tab bar independently for each frame, according to the
> value of 'tab-bar-show'.
>
> What does it mean "frame-local" in this case? Does it mean one should
> use a frame parameter called tab-bar-show? Or does it mean something
> else?
This means it affects each frame separately.
> Next, the above says "a number", but the doc string of tab-bar-show,
> the defcustom forms, and the manual only describe one value: 1.
> However, the code does:
>
> ((natnump tab-bar-show)
> (if (> (length (funcall tab-bar-tabs-function frame)) tab-bar-show) 1 0))))
>
> So tab-bar-show can be meaningfully set to a number other than 1.
> This is undocumented, for some reason. Is that intentional?
Probably no one would want to use a number other than 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-06 8:12 Documentation of tab-bar-show and friends Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 15:24 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-09-06 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 7:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-09 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 18:47 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-09 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 19:22 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-11 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-11 19:10 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 16:03 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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