Second, one might think "Oh, the *Char Help* buffer might be left around later and then we can copy it." Nope, the emacs police have that one covered too. It is destroyed right away after use, faster than Jim Phelps' burning classified audio tape in Mission Impossible. There is only one place that those "you are not allowed to copy" police cannot control: when viewed with emacs -nw. (Oops, I leaked it.) Else one's only option is a screenshot. So where does one encounter this disappearing "*Char Help*" buffer? Well when using C runs the command dired-do-copy (found in dired-mode-map), which is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘dired-aux.el’. emacs-version "26.3" And why would one want to copy the contents of the boring "*Char Help*" buffer? Well, that's the subject of my next bug report...