From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:05:02 +0100 Message-ID: <56800C2E.80300@gmx.at> References: <1716A09ADF16453DAA29A726CB402BA5@us.oracle.com> <87sirsc1lg.fsf@building.gnus.org> <281e9d1f-0853-4498-bd4f-7510213c0cab@default> <43f2b0b2-fafc-43a9-b56a-120b90878cbc@default> <838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451232385 5590 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 16:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10873@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 17:06:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpk-00084B-AG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:06:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpj-00088H-Ky for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:06:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpd-00087q-Tf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpa-0006rn-IV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:06:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:36937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpa-0006rj-Ei for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDpa-0006hz-6Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:06:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: martin rudalics Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10873 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10873-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10873.145123232625703 (code B ref 10873); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10873) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Dec 2015 16:05:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44530 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDoz-0006gV-WB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:05:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:59454) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aDDoy-0006gH-Te for 10873@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([213.162.68.11]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M8MyE-1a0nbH3f9O-00vzwI; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:05:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:J8/0odJThOaRyMkvDk83YrTCVJumSJ07cvQWc4PfxvkzZ1WHfDu IypM/neqH5K91OOAIhtbxlITEYc4PK5UnU1ObaCiRBJBqyYG0Pw3RfdvIMkl/4frB539849 EETlsl/rPsLnbi6zSmlsP41Sm0e9bX68ugvXTjx77Rqvgex7Nifz0lRk8c01+ghUc1F/5oC TY6+g9mrF8qsmXwTUH4vQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:fwIwzeFqbNQ=:HylHZ66GE5agDTit/K+h91 lS1ekvhp4PlhgspEd21cjZzMAwESd+g2CycpKAc8utv1yESXNP1lBYR3v7INnLQrATheSKlom wC8KdCkEgRXNwgcwC2oyeMNeebU7CBIXKTIGpA1/cPWkkcY+T6HRFbDnfg8IqztcR9eUrunLl VP2yTSprte9bhvs8WFM5N8tBtV2xFausuHSayqCR0n8/ON+dJUbQtSZ8hlvjzb0NX0f2xVIAV iYdmGS4slA46CcfleDXZ6ONOmVknrZ+i78eQ1tUQ/8DfYTfKdnpf4a9vdVapxmS/e4eNir6/6 HyXJ0TzmZhOw19NFeyyolxPQY43n9mHeovE1ezwMa1RBEJXGVh2t0Ogmhubxd7tAdomvQtAJA /gOpudV/zCjruuEPCc7hinux3Lo6+g4ApBdX+SocddoX1WSE1AazEN1k2aqkQUK2zp6JCgNDH qMUsoMJJLka5DQ8y2de1xkGHF3W99h3aBVzNMMU1Jea5MLJCqW2942AQOxgFfX4TjLQEdu3F6 ea/haRrpSTJvJTeAc8NTWFMKy91b865xxEJXPThZ++GjqDE4465RTbGM1SQKE/3Dr1fxryoLi e6Z/tg+aWVBAOZtuhjr/DDw11bw++2LpRCToOB6WmT3gUWKBkxK7VaziprJzKJC8fTLLHD1XV pA6zmSvtrmb3ypOOqgmiD8Z41/Vef6SM5Wu1LSUjL/2sgS/kGm7E2w+ma0MkZHem+eyeTI2r4 19d694ZmO2Re+mdlA6qF1pwItGPeghYymuM2zel7yli44v9p1ZdrmUerVwm8Uc4QcFFi/DWl X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:110784 Archived-At: >> This bug is still 100% reproducible in an Emacs 25 build of 2015-12-1= 0: > > 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 =E2=80=98display-buffer=E2=80=99 does not steal that window for showing a= nother buffer. Windows showing *Completions* should disappear immediately when they are no more needed but till then they should be continuously visible. OTOH =E2=80=98report-emacs-bug=E2=80=99 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 =E2=80=98compose-mail=E2=80=99 whic= h 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 =E2=80=98report-emacs-bug=E2=80=99 should = always succeed showing both of its windows in every conceivable context, we can do that easily by calling =E2=80=98delete-other-windows=E2=80=99 before =E2=80=98= display-buffer=E2=80=99. This will clearly misfire for people showing more than two windows per frame. So it's your choice ... martin