GNU bug report logs - #1322
dedicated *Help* and M-x help-for-help

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:55:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 1322 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Geoff Gole'" <geoffgole <at> gmail.com>, <1322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
        "'David Reitter'" <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Subject: RE: bug#1322: dedicated *Help* and M-x help-for-help
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:57:49 -0800

> Would it be ok to just work around this by giving the
> help-for-help buffer a title that is not "*Help*"? Most uses of
> special-display-buffer-names aren't going to cause this problem.

Please do not do that. There is likely code, at least third-party code, that
expects *Help* to be the name - as it has always been.
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