bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!)

[martin rudalics]

>> Conceptually, ‘save-window-excursion’ should not be used around
>> ‘display-buffer’ although it might be harmless in the case at hand.
>
> If it's harmless in this case, why not do it?

I said "it might be harmless".  In private code I would never do such a
thing.  And ‘save-window-excursion’ can't be used here anyway: We would
have to save the configuration current before displaying the mail buffer
and restore it after the mail was sent.  Now suppose the reporter asked
for other completions while editing the mail.  It's the last of those
completions that would be shown after the configuration has been
restored and not the one shown at the time of saving the configuration.

>> I have no opinion other than that fixing this particular problem might
>> introduce problems for people who would, for example, like to write a
>> report based on the appearance of text shown in a particular window.
>
> They can always display that window when they want to.  They know it
> existed, so they will know where and how to look.
>
> OTOH, having the bug-report buffer not show at all is much worse: a
> user who is not very fluent in reporting bugs, or maybe even does that
> for the first time, will never know what to look for.

Such a user must first have to be smart enough to write a bug report
with an open *Completions* window.  Any such user will know what to look
for.

>> So to be sure: Does the present report warrant the proposed solution?
>
> If you can propose a better one that has fewer potential problems, I'm
> all ears.  If not, let's solve this bug that way.  We must solve it.

I have no better solution.

martin