From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to ediff with the diff buffers in separate frames? Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:36:13 +0800 Message-ID: <87y503eqc2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <532C181C.8080702@iankelling.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395401642 13848 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2014 11:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:34:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 12:34:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxiB-0004JP-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:34:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxiB-0002dv-H8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxhw-0001uy-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxhq-0001G8-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxhq-0001Fy-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:33:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQxhn-0003ii-Fa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:33:43 +0100 Original-Received: from 111.197.157.237 ([111.197.157.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:33:43 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 111.197.157.237 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:33:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 111.197.157.237 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SwYrMgJ9XrW+FivBEmUl0oLtzkg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96672 Archived-At: Ian Kelling writes: > Seems like I have to write my own window setup function. Does anyone have one they > use? I do want the control panel to share a frame with one of the diff buffers. > > What threw me off is that the manual suggests this is possible out of the box, but > I don't see how. > > from the ediff manual: > "The files being compared, file-A, > file-B, and file-C (if applicable) are shown in separate windows (side > by side, one above the another, or in separate frames)" > I am using a recent development version of emacs. > > - Ian Have you tried customizing `ediff-window-setup-function'? It seems to me that setting it to 'ediff-setup-windows-plain should do what you want...