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info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:43:16 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:28:03 +0200
> Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > M-x info-display-manual RET gnus RET
> > M-x info-display-manual RET emacs RET
> >
> > Now my Gnus manual is gone, replaced by the Emacs manual.
> > I expected it to use a new buffer for the Emacs manual.
> 
> Maybe it would be good to append manual names to buffer names
> as suffixes like "*info*<gnu>" and "*info*<emacs>" to make
> unique and recognizable buffer names?

How would that help?

> But since currently uniqueness is provided by adding a number
> like "*info*<2>", the following patch will work with the
> current naming convention:
> 
> === modified file 'lisp/info.el'
> --- lisp/info.el	2012-01-25 17:54:01 +0000
> +++ lisp/info.el	2012-02-09 09:27:10 +0000
> @@ -4999,7 +5005,7 @@ (defun info-display-manual (manual)
>      (if found
>  	(switch-to-buffer found)
>        (info-initialize)
> -      (info (Info-find-file manual)))))
> +      (info (Info-find-file manual) (generate-new-buffer-name "*info*")))))

Thanks.

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