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bug#1322: dedicated *Help* and M-x help-for-help
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#1322: dedicated *Help* and M-x help-for-help |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:06:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
> Would it be ok to just work around this by giving the
> help-for-help buffer a title that is not "*Help*"? Most uses of
> special-display-buffer-names aren't going to cause this problem.
`help-for-help' pops up the *Help* buffer in a separate frame. Typing a
character now may cause its window display something else. Thereafter,
`help-for-help', recalling that it popped up a frame and wrongly
assuming that the user has finished viewing its buffer, decides to
iconify the frame.
So giving the `help-for-help' buffer another name ("title") should
indeed fix this and I initially thought to go that way. But, on the
other hand, we usually _want_ to reuse that frame for displaying other
help instead of having to deal with two separate help-related frames.
An easy solution is to use an extra variable, set by `help-for-help' and
reset by `with-help-window', to control iconification. But I never had
the time to check whether all functions run by `help-for-help' also run
`with-help-window'.
martin