Re: Emacs ediff control window location and size

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is a side effect of (fullscreen . maximized) in
> window-system-default-frame-alist.
>
> I have in my .emacs:
> (cl-pushnew '(w32 (font . "Consolas-14")
>                   (fullscreen . maximized))
>             window-system-default-frame-alist)
> So that for each new frame, it will try to make the frame fullscreen.
>
> Is it possible to make the ediff control window an except of this?

You can try:

    (with-eval-after-load 'ediff-wind
      (push '(fullscreen . nil) ediff-control-frame-parameters))

and I suggest you report this as a bug.


        Stefan


> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Shuguang Sun <shuguang@gmail.com> wrote:

>> When I run ediff-buffers, the ediff control pop-up on the right-side of
>> the screening from top to bottom. When I type "?", it shows the help
>> message windon. I type "?" again, it gets back to the control windown, and
>> now the window is on the top-right of the screen as "icon" window as before.
>> 
>> The behavior is different from previous Emacs version (e.g., v24, v25).
>> The initialized ediff control window is on the top-right of the screen as
>> "icon" window. How could make ediff control window behavor as before?
>> 
>> Emacs version: GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of
>> 2017-10-15, from GIT 12 Oct, 2017 System: Window 7.
>> Best Regards,
>> Shuguang
>>