From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 20020@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:08:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rvlvljs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wodd7qou.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:51:29 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, 20020@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:51:29 +0200
>
> M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
> C-x 2
> C-x b *scratch*
> M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
>
> You'll now have two windows displaying the same Info buffer, and that
> was what the user didn't want (and I agree that it's not optimal
> behaviour). In the user's case, it was exacerbated by having the window
> displayed in a different frame, but that's just a detail.
If this is the change, then I think it should be an opt-in change. We
don't behave like that with any other buffers, why should Info buffers
be an exception by default?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-09 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-06 19:15 bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed Drew Adams
2019-10-09 2:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-09 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-09 17:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-09 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-11 8:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-11 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 18:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-09 20:38 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-10 9:16 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-11 8:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-11 8:26 ` martin rudalics
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