bug#9054: 24.0.50; show source in other window

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> The question here is whether you want to follow that "chain of calls" in
> the same window where *Help* appeared or in another one - by default the
> one selected when you did C-h f.

Yes, that would be my preference.

>> But sometimes I do want to look at what the manual says, in which case I
>> want to pop back to the *Help* buffer and hit `i'.  So in that case I
>> don't want the *Help* buffer buried.
>
> Since you use the idiom "pop back" it seems that you did manage to use the
> former *Help* window for "s".

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here?  I don't mean anything in
particular with "pop back" here other than "change to the buffer".

>> I don't want the buffer config to be restored after `s'.
>
> Does "s" ever do such a thing?  What is a "buffer config"?  A window
> configuration?

Yes, I meant window configuration, and no, but you asked, I think?

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