From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11039: 24.0.94; Window incorrectly getting selected Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:57:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wr6i2ezh.fsf@gnu.org> <4F662E00.5080309@gmx.at> <87ipi1gm6y.fsf@gnu.org> <4F66E6C7.7060708@gmx.at> <87haxjfxrs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332248324 27497 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2012 12:58:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11039@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 20 13:58:42 2012 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 1S9ye6-0004jh-P0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:58:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9ye6-0005p8-8E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:58:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9ye0-0005o7-5z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9ydv-0004Uc-9s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9ydv-0004UX-3w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S9z7W-0008Q2-HC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:29:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juanma Barranquero Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11039 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11039-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11039.133225013732352 (code B ref 11039); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11039) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Mar 2012 13:28:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57945 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S9z7Q-0008Pk-71 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:49072) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S9z7A-0008PO-E3 for 11039@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: by dakl33 with SMTP id l33so5249dak.3 for <11039@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:58:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LeB9CG00LCXb+rTrvx0pm4C0HeYAmNqfkmiKymmKY54=; b=mxMfsnBAO2q9qoqRXJjTotCxYwvyzcY+j6rEnM+hUdOf8EYfW2VjpQxNlZpwBWlmdY kTS30kiManmbHQIITVPU9aCzgMuKQ3RAGgD8uLqHIScJW2Dxvv2rP5Nv3FjTg0bOCW4I XRovcEXhIhyY60QS9JKJI6A8sZXS0pfJijWevknbAwh3XC4DLDUc7B1hDeKk4BlUIWxE 0pk4Gj7fn8zXKNpp7COka0BBTqruu6Xli5s5Q6LUOZf2YCSbuiGEWTnDXRMrQ74gHhdo y1f4P/JzcopwkZL3JDwz9vfSy1mrwkmIq0ISzbM5pxC8dlM21y7ZBi054SK08Lq2rNdh Wl5w== Original-Received: by 10.68.229.73 with SMTP id so9mr729436pbc.163.1332248283616; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.1.15 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:57:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87haxjfxrs.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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:57894 Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:05, Chong Yidong wrote: > You seem to be assuming that the user wants to dismiss the help window > immediately, but I don't think that that's a justified assumption. =C2=A0= When > writing Emacs Lisp code, for instance, I like to leave one window open > for the *Help* buffer, and this behavior keeps switching me out of the > code buffer. OTOH, dismissing the help window automatically is what I do like 95% of the time, because I mostly want to remember some detail I've forgotten. In fact, until Martin's new window stuff I used ehelp to make it easier, and resorted to exiting the electric loop in the few cases that I really wanted to keep the help window around. Now I have an entry in `display-buffer-alist' that calls an action function of my own to autoselect all \*Help(.*) windows, regardless of the setting of `help-window-select' (and I'm quite glad of getting rid of ehelp). Which is to say, the "display help / take a look / dismiss at once" pattern isn't unheard of. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma