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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window w
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed |
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Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:51:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't really understand what you did and what was the original
> problem, because info-display-manual already behaves for me like the
> OP wanted. It has behaved like that from day one, because I wrote it
> to do so. It only displays in *info* if there's not already an
> *info*<N> buffer showing the requested manual (and in my Emacs
> sessions, I never have *info* for long, I either kill it or rename to
> *info*<N>.
Yes, it reuses the buffer. But the bug report is about window
behaviour.
> Maybe the problem is that the OP did this in dedicated windows?
> That's the only factor I could think of that is different from what I
> do.
Try this in Emacs 26:
M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
C-x 2
C-x b *scratch*
M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
You'll now have two windows displaying the same Info buffer, and that
was what the user didn't want (and I agree that it's not optimal
behaviour). In the user's case, it was exacerbated by having the window
displayed in a different frame, but that's just a detail.
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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed, Juri Linkov, 2019/10/09