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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customize how xrefs are followed in help-mode?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 08:55:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh89t2qdg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87v9yadx7h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net

> It's always bothered me that following a function/variable definition
> button from a *Help* buffer goes to the file in a separate window -- I
> almost always want to re-use the *Help* window.

While it doesn't offer such a thing yet, it should be easy to extend
`other-frame-window` to also offer a `ofw-same-window` prefix command,
to solve this dilemma once and for all.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-17 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16 19:18 Customize how xrefs are followed in help-mode? Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-16 19:22 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-16 19:30   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-16 20:14     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-17 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-05-17 16:16   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-19 19:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-21  0:31   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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