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> I have actually tried to find some general way to do this
> programmatically with any buffer, but thus far, I don't see any
> general way that is both efficient and 100% failsafe.

Please share your experience what have you tried
since it would be nice to have a general function
that will delegate key presses to any window,
not just the hard-coded *Help* and *Info*.