Re: How to jump with ediff

[Haines Brown]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 08:37:43PM +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> 
> > > Stefan, thank you, but you loose me. What is a "control window"? I'm
> > > running ediff in emacs. With the Mx-ediff command Emacs displays two
> > > vertical windows. One displays one file and the other window
> > > displays the other file. There is no "Ediff control window" that I
> > > can see.
> > 
> > Hmm... you're supposed to get a third window (normally shown in a small
> > separate Emacs frame) showing a buffer called "*Ediff Control Panel*".
> > The modeline doesn't show the buffer name, tho.  And the frame is quite
> > small, something line 2 lines by 20 columns or so (one line is the mode
> > line which just shows how many diffs were found).
> > 
> 
> IMO that separate Ediff Control Panel frame is an unfortunate default.
> 
> Haines, add the following to your init file, and you'll see the Ediff
> Control Panel at the bottom of the frame:
> 
> (setq ediff-window-setup-function #'ediff-setup-windows-plain)

Gregory, thanks. I will be trying it out.
 
Haines