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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: "J.P." <jp@neverwas.me>, 73686@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: emacs-erc@gnu.org
Subject: bug#73686: 31.0.50; ERC 5.6.1-git: back button gone from describe-face via erc-nicks-list-faces
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 04:05:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38df6195-e438-41c4-b107-3e2e9a20f873@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttdn5dsz.fsf@neverwas.me>

Hi!

On 08/10/2024 09:06, J.P. wrote:
> And because `major-mode' is buffer-local, it gets wiped out with these
> latest changes before `help-buffer' ever sees it:

This is a problem, sorry.

The command in question (erc-nicks-list-faces) doesn't really work for 
me -- it errors with

   No faces matching "\`erc-nicks-"

I've just pushed the patch below to master. Could you try it and see if 
it helps?

diff --git a/lisp/help-mode.el b/lisp/help-mode.el
index 4ee4f4156a1..f233633d2ca 100644
--- a/lisp/help-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/help-mode.el
@@ -505,7 +505,8 @@ help-setup-xref
  because we want to record the \"previous\" position of point so we can
  restore it properly when going back."
    (with-current-buffer (help-buffer)
-    (kill-all-local-variables)
+     ;; Re-enable major mode, killing all other local vars.
+    (funcall major-mode)
      (when help-xref-stack-item
        (push (cons (point) help-xref-stack-item) help-xref-stack)
        (setq help-xref-forward-stack nil))






  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-09  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-08  2:47 bug#73686: 31.0.50; ERC 5.6.1-git: back button gone from describe-face via erc-nicks-list-faces J.P.
2024-10-08  6:06 ` J.P.
     [not found] ` <87ttdn5dsz.fsf@neverwas.me>
2024-10-08 21:07   ` J.P.
     [not found]   ` <87y12y1exp.fsf@neverwas.me>
2024-10-08 23:41     ` J.P.
     [not found]     ` <87o73uyxgv.fsf@neverwas.me>
2024-10-09  0:59       ` J.P.
     [not found]       ` <8734l6xf91.fsf@neverwas.me>
2024-10-09  3:00         ` J.P.
2024-10-09  1:05   ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2024-10-09  1:24     ` J.P.

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