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bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man |
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Date: |
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 21:40:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> The recipe is unclear -- I think it's really
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>> M-x man RET man RET
>> select the man window
>> M-: (progn (man "XYZ") (read-string "-->"))
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> Do you understand the practical importance of the last command? IOW,
> in which practical use case will 'man' be called like that?
The practical issue was that you do an M-x man on something, and then
start doing something else (for instance a new M-x). The error message
reported asynchronously will then select a random different buffer.
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