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: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:15:06 -0500

>   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?

If we want info-display-manual to do that, we'd need to make sure that
either you can't move up to `dir' and select some other manual in those
info buffers, or otherwise catch this case and dynamically rename the
buffer (e.g. with uniquify).


        Stefan
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