From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:28:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A6439A9.6080406@gmx.at> <4A65C23E.3010801@gmx.at> <4A65CCD6.7060505@gmx.at> <4A66E5DB.6090007@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248284250 8957 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 17:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 19:37:23 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 1MTfkl-0001dK-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTfkk-0006Gw-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTb7S-0004tG-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTb7L-0004qo-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59758 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTb7L-0004qk-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.46.177.79] (port=59583 helo=ix) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTb7K-0000rA-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from helmut by ix with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MTZ3O-0001AH-O7; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:28:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4A66E5DB.6090007@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:11:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Greylist: delayed 7928 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:18 EDT X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:35:22 -0400 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:113010 Archived-At: * martin rudalics [2009-07-22 12:11+0200] writes: > 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". The command which prepares and displays the help buffer (in 1 and 3) should probably wipe out the buffer-local variable. Not a big deal. Is it? Helmut.