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

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:45:51 +0100

> Yes, clearly.  I got that.  But why would you even consider
 > `with-temp-buffer-window', rather than `with-output-to-temp-buffer', as
 > the end target of your consolidation?
 >
 > Incorporate whatever you feel you need to into
 > `with-output-to-temp-buffer', as long as "no feature is lost" from it.
 > But please do not consider deprecating `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
 > It was that possibility that was mentioned and that I replied to.
 >
 > If you feel that you need to deprecate something here, deprecate the
 > new addition, `with-temp-buffer-window', which has hardly been used
 > anywhere.

The same author wrote in http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8368

   Sounds good to me.  My only proposal in that regard was to create an alias with
   a better name (e.g. `...-help-...'), and deprecate `with-output-to-temp-buffer'
   to encourage use of the new name.

martin, who couldn't resist