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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window w
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Oct 2019 20:22:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > If this is the change, then I think it should be an opt-in change. We
>> > don't behave like that with any other buffers, why should Info buffers
>> > be an exception by default?
>>
>> That's true. Off the top of my head, I can't recall any other commands
>> that work this way, so it's odd for `info-display-manual' to do so.
>>
>> Should I just revert the change?
>
> It'd be fine with me, but probably not with Drew. having an opt-in
> defcustom is a good compromise, I think.
I don't know much about how dedicated windows work, but couldn't Drew
set that up to have Emacs pop up that window instead of having special
code for this in `info-display-manual'? I had forgotten about that when
I wrote the patch.
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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