From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff next/previous difference & point Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:54:15 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85u034gul4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1158312293.198281.216200@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1158315498.023978.197200@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <85odthz93s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <1158578179.954692.222130@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87eju9osyj.fsf@utanet.at> <851wq9j6ca.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <1158651978.874530.243870@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158655395 12706 80.91.229.2 (19 Sep 2006 08:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 10:43:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPbBz-0003mB-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:43:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPbBy-0001d6-UO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:42:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/LJ0+07bPT8D/qDD2h5hlvwWNa4= Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Sep 2006 09:54:18 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67163b61.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=>_bm82o^LM]1`E>oC; JXEZA9EHlD; 3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ4nDHegD_]RUd1WbjkZ@; 1YCV`H8_`hhQT^9QSCVg3dOVlR6Na List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37484 Archived-At: "Sergei" writes: > David: > >> Stefan Reichör writes: > ... >> > A related note for ediff: >> > >> > I use the following setting in my .emacs: >> > (setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain) > > Me too. > >> > Now I don't get an extra frame for the ediff control panel. And it is >> > possible to switch to a buffer or the control panel via C-x C-o > > Why do you need this? > >> I don't think this an advantage: with more than two windows, C-x o >> [sic!] gets messy. Having two frames and being able to switch between >> them with C-x 5 o seems much more convenient. > > I find it VERY inconvenient. This separate frame often gets > lost. Uh what? Are you sure that you have set focus-follows-mouse to the right setting? Or have you something like "raise-on-focus" set as a window manager preference? > C-x 5 o gets messy when you have extra frames; What are "extra frames"? > and this is a different interface compared to the console. ???? What is the point here? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum