From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: q doesn't always quit *Help* Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:54:56 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190833093 7827 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2007 18:58:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:58:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "Bug-Gnu-Emacs" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 20:58:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iac5F-0003xA-9G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iac5C-0004yk-9B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iac4M-0004Gh-Jj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iac4H-0004BM-2r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iac4G-0004B7-NZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iac4F-0001ij-IS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l8QIu4TK026660 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:56:05 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l8Q83NLm020697 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:56:04 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-158.us.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3246547711190832893; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:54:53 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16620 Archived-At: There are plenty of contexts where `q' in *Help* does not quit. I and others have reported some in the past. Here is another: emacs -Q C-h f forward-char C-x 0 ; so *Help* is the only window q ; Does nothing. In general, View-mode quitting is a complex mess. In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'