From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14238: [PATCH] Help page for character description forgets the character Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:26:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1366544301.44150.YahooMailClassic@web141106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366640833 14152 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2013 14:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14238@debbugs.gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 16:27:17 2013 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 1UUHi8-0003Rj-RB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHi8-0005Ab-Ey for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHi4-0005AD-MM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHi3-0002ig-EB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHi3-0002ib-AN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHmk-0002yv-37 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14238 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 14238-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14238.136664107111275 (code B ref 14238); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14238) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Apr 2013 14:31:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37118 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHlu-0002vm-T1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:31:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40667) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UUHlr-0002vH-CF for 14238@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:31:08 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LAd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LAd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="7968467" Original-Received: from 206-248-176-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.176.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 22 Apr 2013 10:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4A67567A3A; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:26:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1366544301.44150.YahooMailClassic@web141106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Kelly Dean's message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:38:21 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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.x 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:73574 Archived-At: > On 24.3, emacs -Q > Type the letters AB, then put point on A. Do describe-char, then put point > on B, and do describe-char again. > Change the A to C, the press [back] in *Help*. > The help page is now for C, not for A. It should be for A; you never did describe-char on C. Not sure if it is really a bug: while the name is "describe-char" what it does is more like "describe-pos" (and indeed it receives a position rather than a char as argument). So when you "back" you ask to redisplay the info about the pos where A used to be (and where C is now instead). The data stored with `help-setup-xref' is also used for `revert-buffer' which lets you refresh the description after the buffer was modified. Stefan