Subject: bug#16038: 24.3; latest change to with-help-window makes temp-buffer-browse useless

From: Leo Liu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:30:08 +0800

On 2014-01-24 01:48 +0800, Drew Adams wrote:
> Huh?  What's this about?  Why on Earth would we deprecate
> `with-output-to-temp-buffer'?  How about some reasons for such a
> proposal?
>
> My code and other 3rd-party libraries use `with-output-to-temp-buffer'
> all over the place.
>
> But I have no code that uses `with-temp-buffer-window'.  And googling
> for it shows one hit to the Elisp manual and the rest are hits to
> Emacs bugs!  I do not see zillions of users of
> `with-temp-buffer-window', which was not introduced until Emacs 24.3.

We are trying to consolidate the features of the two macros into one so
no feature is lost.

Leo