Re: Documentation of tab-bar-show and friends

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:10:13 +0300
> 
> > So the heading in NEWS, viz.:
> >
> >   *** The tab bar is frame-local when 'tab-bar-show' is a number.
> >
> > is incorrect, and should instead say that the tab bar can be made
> > frame-local by using toggle-frame-tab-bar, is that correct?  Because
> > the above heading tells me "if tab-show is set to a number, the tab
> > bar becomes frame-local", which is not correct, right?
> >
> > Suppose now I did use toggle-frame-tab-bar, it still only allows me
> > only to enable and disable the tab bar for specific frames, but the
> > value of tab-bar-show is still the same for all the frames that do
> > display the tab bar.  Correct?
> 
> The term "frame-local" is not well-defined and can mean different
> things: for numeric 'tab-bar-show' it can mean that the presence of the
> tab-bar on each frame depends on the number of tabs on that frame.
> For toggle-frame-tab-bar it can mean that the user can enable/disable
> the tab-bar for each frame manually.

Got it, thanks.