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* bug#57816: 28.2; Renaming a help buffer from help-mode-hook
@ 2022-09-15  4:43 Damien Cassou
  2022-09-16 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Damien Cassou @ 2022-09-15  4:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 57816

In GNU Emacs 28.2, I would like to automatically rename help buffers so
their name reflect their content. For example, I want *Help: car*
instead of just *Help* for the help buffer of `car'. Unfortunately,
adding #'rename-buffer to `help-mode-hook' doesn't work as this results
in 2 buffers instead of just one:

  emacs --batch -Q \
    --eval "(add-hook 'help-mode-hook (lambda () (rename-buffer \"*foo*\")))" \
    --eval "(describe-function #'describe-function)" \
    --eval "(prin1 (cons (get-buffer \"*Help*\") (get-buffer \"*foo*\")))"

prints

  (#<buffer *Help*> . #<buffer *foo*>)

After the "rename", there is still a buffer with the old name. Is there
a more correct way to do this?

Best

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill





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* bug#57816: 28.2; Renaming a help buffer from help-mode-hook
  2022-09-15  4:43 bug#57816: 28.2; Renaming a help buffer from help-mode-hook Damien Cassou
@ 2022-09-16 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-09-16 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Damien Cassou; +Cc: 57816

Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 28.2, I would like to automatically rename help buffers so
> their name reflect their content. For example, I want *Help: car*
> instead of just *Help* for the help buffer of `car'. Unfortunately,
> adding #'rename-buffer to `help-mode-hook' doesn't work as this results
> in 2 buffers instead of just one:
>
>   emacs --batch -Q \
>     --eval "(add-hook 'help-mode-hook (lambda () (rename-buffer \"*foo*\")))" \
>     --eval "(describe-function #'describe-function)" \
>     --eval "(prin1 (cons (get-buffer \"*Help*\") (get-buffer \"*foo*\")))"
>
> prints
>
>   (#<buffer *Help*> . #<buffer *foo*>)
>
> After the "rename", there is still a buffer with the old name. Is there
> a more correct way to do this?

I can reproduce this in Emacs 28.2, but not in Emacs 29, so it looks
like this has been fixed already.





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