From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 8368@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8368: 24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:41:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R2oxp-0000SH-FG@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fwk3lp2m.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:45:21 +0200)
> Richard, why is `help-mode-setup' run in absolutely all
> `with-output-to-temp-buffer' buffers? This seems rather un-optimal,
> since that macro is used for many other things than showing help
> buffers.
I think they were initially set up in Fundamental mode.
Then, once Help mode existed, it was the right thing for most of these
buffers, so it was useful to put them in Help mode. But there was
no way to make that optional without changing all the callers.
There are other ways to handle this, but just deleting that code would
have bad results: most of these buffers would end up in Fundamental
mode.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 16:24 bug#8368: 24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document Drew Adams
2011-07-14 19:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 3:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 4:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-11 5:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-28 0:15 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 8:25 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-28 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-29 10:40 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-29 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-30 9:40 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-30 14:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-01 8:08 ` martin rudalics
2012-05-01 13:09 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-02 9:40 ` martin rudalics
2012-05-02 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-28 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-11 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 18:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-09-11 18:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 19:24 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-12 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
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