From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50881@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:09:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y27fc0yn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnz_32L-vBoYTA9tUvCPP-NHoLkQzUy0JW5BRACchRYzQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:10:43 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Severity: minor
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. C-h C-s f RET
>
> You are now looking at an empty " *Metahelp*" buffer.
>
> My expectation is that the help screen gets displayed before the search
> starts.
Yup. And the doc string isn't very helpful:
Search forward "help window".
Which sounds like it's talking about the *Help* window, not the `C-h
C-h' help-for-help window.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 23:10 bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 6:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 7:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 10:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 15:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 17:08 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 16:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 17:57 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 19:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 19:52 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-30 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 7:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-29 15:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 16:06 ` Stefan Kangas
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