Quitting Help window doesn't really work

[Otto Maddox]

I suppose this is more of a feature request than a bug.

It seems to be conventional in Emacs to use `q' to quit many read-only
buffers or windows (e.g., Dired, Info or Apropos).  But in *Help*
buffers this doesn't always work:

$ emacs -q

C-h k a C-x 1 C-x 4 b * H e l p * RET q

and the *Help* window doesn't go away.  This is annoying because it's
inconsistent with itself and unpredictable (it often doesn't work, but
when it does, it's very nice).  So it breaks the "flow" in using
Emacs.



In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
 of 2006-03-20
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure '--with-gtk''

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: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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