From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 10873@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56800C2E.80300@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org>
>> This bug is still 100% reproducible in an Emacs 25 build of 2015-12-10:
>
> Martin, could you please look into this?
There's not much I can do about this. I can give a simpler recipe with
emacs -Q: Type C-h f set- RET and see the *Completions* window pop up.
Then type M-x report-emacs-bug.
OT1H the window showing the *Completions* buffer is softly dedicated to
that buffer. This is necessary to make sure that an intermittent
‘display-buffer’ does not steal that window for showing another buffer.
Windows showing *Completions* should disappear immediately when they are
no more needed but till then they should be continuously visible.
OTOH ‘report-emacs-bug’ apparently assumes that it always has two
windows at its disposal - one for the message and one for help. This
assumption misfires with the recipe at hand. (Note that my machine in
addition also displays a warning from ‘compose-mail’ which gets usually
immediately buried when showing either the message or the help.)
IMO this report is the result of a cockpit error. As long as a "modal"
window like that showing *Completions* is open, users should not start
an unrelated activity, including that of writing a bug report.
If, however, people think that ‘report-emacs-bug’ should always succeed
showing both of its windows in every conceivable context, we can do that
easily by calling ‘delete-other-windows’ before ‘display-buffer’. This
will clearly misfire for people showing more than two windows per frame.
So it's your choice ...
martin
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 23:21 bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!) Drew Adams
2012-09-17 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09 5:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-11 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-25 23:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-26 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 16:05 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2015-12-27 16:12 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 17:06 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 18:37 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 10:08 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 18:36 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-28 18:23 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-28 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-28 13:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 17:06 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 18:37 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-27 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 10:08 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-28 10:44 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 18:23 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-28 18:41 ` Drew Adams
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[not found] ` <<838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<56800C2E.80300@gmx.at>
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2015-12-27 18:00 ` Drew Adams
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