From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: philip-agee@africamel.net
Cc: 49166@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49166: Writing in help-buffer does not show in history
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:34:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tulqb5up.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea-mime-60d10838-38d-3f6e66d3@www-7.mailo.com> (philip-agee@africamel.net's message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2021 23:44:24 +0200 (CEST)")
philip-agee@africamel.net writes:
> Have written the following function that inserts text in the
> help-buffer.
>
> Was curious to see whether the inserted text persist if one uses
> the buttons or commands in the Help Buffer that take you
> back/forth in the history of visited entries (you can invoke
> those commands with 'l' for left ('help-go-back') and 'r' for
> right ('help-go-forward')).
>
> It does not show in the history when using ('help-go-back').
These history commands rely on help-xref-stack being set up
appropriately, which is done with the function help-setup-xref.
See (info "(elisp) Help Functions") [0] and the linked
example in (info "(elisp) Accessing Documentation") [1]
(or look at the definitions of describe-function, etc.).
[0]: https://gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Help-Functions.html
[1]: https://gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Accessing-Documentation.html
HTH,
--
Basil
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2021-06-21 21:44 bug#49166: Writing in help-buffer does not show in history philip-agee
2021-06-22 9:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2021-06-22 13:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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