From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Riel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:58:30 -0800 Organization: Maplesoft Message-ID: <20210215085830.027e0395@gauss> References: <20210201131654.07652026@gauss> <3d35f670-c5c5-488a-bc25-b6f8a2d642ef@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11556"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Alan D. Salewski" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 18:12:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1lBhQZ-0002uT-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:12:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBhQY-0002hV-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBhIh-0003ii-QC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mh3.maplesoft.com ([199.71.183.16]:28204 helo=ICW12KMAI02.maplesoft.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBhIb-00066R-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ICW12KMAI02.maplesoft.com (10.10.1.102) by ICW12KMAI02.maplesoft.com (10.10.1.102) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1347.2; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from gauss (10.10.0.99) by ICW12KMAI02.maplesoft.com (10.10.1.102) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1347.2 via Frontend Transport; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:58:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3d35f670-c5c5-488a-bc25-b6f8a2d642ef@www.fastmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=199.71.183.16; envelope-from=jriel@maplesoft.com; helo=ICW12KMAI02.maplesoft.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128084 Archived-At: On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:49:41 -0500 "Alan D. Salewski" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 16:16, Joe Riel wrote: > > When launching ediff (emacs 26.1) the floating frame that controls the session > > isn't automatically being selected, I have to do so manually. Is there a way > > to configure it so that it is selected at the launch? > > > > -- > > Joe Riel > > Though not an answer to your specific question, if you customize > ediff-window-setup-function to be ediff-setup-windows-plain, then no extra > frame will be created when you launch ediff. The ediff control window will be > a small (one line) window beneath the windows of the buffers being compared, > and it will have the focus so you can just start driving ediff. Thanks Al. Finally got around to trying this, and it is a suitable workaround. -- Joe Riel