Inform user when tab-line-mode command makes no change

* lisp/tab-line.el (tab-line-mode): Display message when command is
run on already altered tab-line-format.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/tab-line.el b/lisp/tab-line.el
index 6898ba53e02..316c87fb3ad 100644
--- a/lisp/tab-line.el
+++ b/lisp/tab-line.el
@@ -1124,11 +1124,17 @@ However, return the correct mouse position list if EVENT is a
   (let ((default-value '(:eval (tab-line-format))))
     (if tab-line-mode
         ;; Preserve the existing tab-line set outside of this mode
-        (unless tab-line-format
-          (setq tab-line-format default-value))
+        (if (null tab-line-format)
+            (setq tab-line-format default-value)
+          (message
+           "tab-line-format set outside of tab-line-mode, currently `%S'"
+           tab-line-format))
       ;; Reset only values set by this mode
-      (when (equal tab-line-format default-value)
-        (setq tab-line-format nil)))))
+      (if (equal tab-line-format default-value)
+          (setq tab-line-format nil)
+        (message
+         "tab-line-format set outside of tab-line-mode, currently `%S'"
+         tab-line-format)))))
 
 (defcustom tab-line-exclude-modes
   '(completion-list-mode)