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#11039
24.0.94; Window incorrectly getting selected
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Reported by: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:24:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 12943
Found in versions 24.0.94, 24.2.50
Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:05, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> You seem to be assuming that the user wants to dismiss the help window
> immediately, but I don't think that that's a justified assumption. When
> writing Emacs Lisp code, for instance, I like to leave one window open
> for the *Help* buffer, and this behavior keeps switching me out of the
> code buffer.
OTOH, dismissing the help window automatically is what I do like 95%
of the time, because I mostly want to remember some detail I've
forgotten. In fact, until Martin's new window stuff I used ehelp to
make it easier, and resorted to exiting the electric loop in the few
cases that I really wanted to keep the help window around. Now I have
an entry in `display-buffer-alist' that calls an action function of my
own to autoselect all \*Help(.*) windows, regardless of the setting of
`help-window-select' (and I'm quite glad of getting rid of ehelp).
Which is to say, the "display help / take a look / dismiss at once"
pattern isn't unheard of.
Juanma
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