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24.3; latest change to with-help-window makes temp-buffer-browse useless

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16038: 24.3; latest change to with-help-window makes temp-buffer-browse useless
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:04:44 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Leo Liu wrote:
>
>> Could we remove the following two add-hooks?
>>
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (add-hook 'temp-buffer-setup-hook 'help-mode-setup)
>> (add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook 'help-mode-finish)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> If you want to do this (I know you already did...), you need to add an
> incompatible change entry to NEWS about this, and you need to audit
> every single use of with-output-to-temp-buffer to find the ones that
> expected their output buffers to be in help mode.

And of course you need to update the documentation too.

(Are you sure this is worth it?)

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