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Re: help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol


From: Helmut Eller
Subject: Re: help-window-select and info-lookup-symbol
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:28:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

* martin rudalics [2009-07-22 12:11+0200] writes:

> The scenario I had in mind was that (1) `display-buffer' reuses a window
> as a help-window (2) in that window the user manually switches to a
> buffer via `switch-to-buffer' and (3) `display-buffer' again reuses that
> window as a help-window.  Typing `q' in that window now will restore the
> buffer shown before (1) and not the buffer shown by (2).  In this scenario
> the `switch-to-buffer' hardly counts as a "temporary excursion".

The command which prepares and displays the help buffer (in 1 and 3)
should probably wipe out the buffer-local variable.  
Not a big deal.  Is it?

Helmut.




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