GNU bug report logs - #10770
info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:35:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.0.93

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:54 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:53:20 -0500
> 
> 
> PS maybe there should be an `info-rename' command that renames an info
> buffer to include the name of the displayed manual. Presumably it was
> the fact that you had *info*<1>, *info*<2> etc rather than *info*<emacs>
> that led you to write info-display-manual in the first place.

Also because typing "emacs" or "make" is shorter than "*info*<emacs>"
etc., and completion doesn't help much when all the candidates begin
with the same substring.
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