From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:11:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A66E5DB.6090007@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ws62krbm.fsf@gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-19 16:24 help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol Helmut Eller
2009-07-20 9:32 ` martin rudalics
2009-07-21 12:33 ` Helmut Eller
2009-07-21 13:27 ` martin rudalics
2009-07-21 13:51 ` Helmut Eller
2009-07-21 14:12 ` martin rudalics
2009-07-21 15:07 ` Helmut Eller
2009-07-22 10:11 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2009-07-22 10:28 ` Helmut Eller
2009-07-26 10:01 ` martin rudalics
2009-07-26 10:39 ` Helmut Eller
2009-07-26 11:00 ` martin rudalics
2009-07-26 12:30 ` Helmut Eller
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