From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: q in *Help* buffer deletes another window Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:36:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185129394 25158 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2007 18:36:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 20:36:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ICgIB-0001hY-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:36:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICgIB-0004iz-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICgGu-0003sq-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICgGt-0003sM-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICgGt-0003s9-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICgGs-0004Eh-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICgIH-0005e6-P3; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:36:37 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75308 Archived-At: The code that handles exiting from view mode is complex, and apparently needs redesign. This isn't the only recent complaint. Is anyone interested? X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 From: "Drew Adams" To: "Bug-Gnu-Emacs" Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:37:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: q in *Help* buffer deletes another window emacs -Q C-x d RET C-x 3 C-x C-f M-x set-variable pop-up-frames t C-h f forward-char q (in *Help* buffer) The *Help* buffer is iconified, and the window of the buffer visiting file is deleted. The window of should not be deleted. (It is also a bug, IMO, that *Help* is iconified. When pop-up-frames is non-nil, the frame should be deleted. Other users have also reported this awful behavior.) 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' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: M-x s e t - v a r p o p - u p - f r a m s t C-x 3 C-x C-f f o i t - f C-h f f o r w a r d - c h a r q C-x C-b q Recent messages: ("C:\\Emacs-22.1\\bin\\emacs.exe" "-q" "--no-site-file" "--debug-init" "C:\\drews-lisp-20") Loading encoded-kb...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading dired... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading dired...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading help-fns...done Loading easymenu...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ bug-gnu-emacs mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs