Re: q in *Help* buffer deletes another window

[Richard Stallman]

The code that handles exiting from view mode is complex,
and apparently needs redesign.  This isn't the only recent
complaint.

Is anyone interested?


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Subject: q in *Help* buffer deletes another window

emacs -Q
C-x d RET
C-x 3
C-x C-f <some file>
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 <some-file> is deleted. The window of <some-file> 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:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x
s e t - v a r <return> p o p - u p - f r a m <tab>
s <return> t <return> C-x 3 C-x C-f f o <backspace>
i t - f <tab> <return> C-h f f o r w a r d - c h a
r <return> <switch-frame> q C-x C-b <switch-frame>
q <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
("C:\\Emacs-22.1\\bin\\emacs.exe" "-q" "--no-site-file" "--debug-init"
"C:\\drews-lisp-20")
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