From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:25:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83bn9bhna2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1716A09ADF16453DAA29A726CB402BA5@us.oracle.com> <87sirsc1lg.fsf@building.gnus.org> <281e9d1f-0853-4498-bd4f-7510213c0cab@default> <43f2b0b2-fafc-43a9-b56a-120b90878cbc@default> <838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org> <56800C2E.80300@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451233524 22245 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 16:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10873@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 17:25:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE88-0004g5-1u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE87-0002l5-72 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE81-0002kk-UI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7y-0002rB-5u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:36960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7y-0002r0-2o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7x-0007BC-U5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:25:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10873 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10873-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10873.145123347327557 (code B ref 10873); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10873) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Dec 2015 16:24:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44562 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7V-0007AP-A2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54354) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7T-0007AB-2d for 10873@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:24:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7K-0002PQ-Cj for 10873@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7K-0002PM-97; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2282 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aDE7I-00009e-VS; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:24:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <56800C2E.80300@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:05:02 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:110792 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:05:02 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: larsi@gnus.org, 10873@debbugs.gnu.org > > OT1H the window showing the *Completions* buffer is softly dedicated to > that buffer. This is necessary to make sure that an intermittent > ‘display-buffer’ does not steal that window for showing another buffer. > Windows showing *Completions* should disappear immediately when they are > no more needed but till then they should be continuously visible. > > OTOH ‘report-emacs-bug’ apparently assumes that it always has two > windows at its disposal - one for the message and one for help. This > assumption misfires with the recipe at hand. (Note that my machine in > addition also displays a warning from ‘compose-mail’ which gets usually > immediately buried when showing either the message or the help.) > > IMO this report is the result of a cockpit error. As long as a "modal" > window like that showing *Completions* is open, users should not start > an unrelated activity, including that of writing a bug report. > > If, however, people think that ‘report-emacs-bug’ should always succeed > showing both of its windows in every conceivable context, we can do that > easily by calling ‘delete-other-windows’ before ‘display-buffer’. This > will clearly misfire for people showing more than two windows per frame. Can we save the window configuration before deleting other windows, and restore it once the report is sent? If not, then I think just deleting the other windows is "good enough" in this case. Thanks.