Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:50:14 +0100
> Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 02:34:07PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:59 -0600
> > > 
> > > On 18 Dec 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > >
> > > >We don't advertise that key for a reason, so I don't think this 
> > > >is a good idea.
> > > 
> > > Okay.  I'm curious what that reason is, if you have time to 
> > > explain, but I'm fine accepting this decision as a given.
> > 
> > The reason is simple: what you see is a side effect of how the user
> > interaction was implemented in this case [...]
> 
> That would be C-r.

The question was about C-r, so that's what I answered.

> What impedes the (for this "dumb user" here) "most
> obvious" path, i.e. changing to that buffer with C-o and copy things
> into the kill buffer to inspect them later at ease?

The fact that rmc.el is a modal dialog, AFAIU.