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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 10:00:48 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fc49264-f41a-47d3-8a62-5cdcdf37eeea@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56801A87.7050107@gmx.at>

> I have no opinion other than that fixing this particular problem 

by just removing other windows

> might introduce problems for people who would, for example, like
> to write a report based on the appearance of text shown in a
> particular window.  If we deliberately delete such a window before
> the user is able to fill in the text for the report, she may have
> a hard time recreating it.

Exactly!  And the same for *Completions*.

> And obviously deleting all other windows will be silly when the bug
> report window should pop up on a new frame anyway.  Note in this
> context: We don't know beforehand whether that will happen!

Agreed, again.

> So to be sure: Does the present report warrant the proposed solution?

The right solution is _not_ to remove other windows.

Perhaps the right solution is to pop up a separate frame.
Or perhaps the "instructions" window should be combined with
the "report" window.  Or perhaps the pre-Emacs 23 code could
serve as a guide (dunno).





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-27 18:00 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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
     [not found]     ` <<43f2b0b2-fafc-43a9-b56a-120b90878cbc@default>
     [not found]       ` <<838u4hk0um.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <<56800C2E.80300@gmx.at>
     [not found]           ` <<83bn9bhna2.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]             ` <<1cf60229-6b8c-4c53-96f2-1b8f5d74b80b@default>
     [not found]               ` <<8337unhkwt.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-27 18:00                 ` Drew Adams

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