From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:11:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4A66E5DB.6090007@gmx.at> References: <4A6439A9.6080406@gmx.at> <4A65C23E.3010801@gmx.at> <4A65CCD6.7060505@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248257524 15786 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 10:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 12:11:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTYnj-00061t-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:11:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTYnj-00059J-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTYnc-00059E-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTYnX-00058u-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37640 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTYnW-00058r-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36370) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTYnW-0002Gr-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2009 10:11:39 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-45-73.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.45.73]) [62.47.45.73] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 22 Jul 2009 12:11:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+AsqMjtn+AjvKqnEJxNEm43qJhOXn7V1MY1qc/Xn AGqhXElBf7vmNL User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112996 Archived-At: > Hmm.. no it wouldn't. I wouldn't call that failing though. One could > also argue that if the user switches to B and back that's a temporary > excursion and should have no permanent effect. Right or Wrong depends > on the users expectations. If the window was freshly created by > slime-display-popup-buffer the user might well expect that pressing q > will close it. OTOH, some users have strange expectations; they expect > the exact opposite from what I would :-) The scenario I had in mind was that (1) `display-buffer' reuses a window as a help-window (2) in that window the user manually switches to a buffer via `switch-to-buffer' and (3) `display-buffer' again reuses that window as a help-window. Typing `q' in that window now will restore the buffer shown before (1) and not the buffer shown by (2). In this scenario the `switch-to-buffer' hardly counts as a "temporary excursion". martin