Re: ediff control frame doesn't start with focus

[Joe Riel]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:49:41 -0500
"Alan D. Salewski" <ads@salewski.email> 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