GNU bug report logs - #16038
24.3; latest change to with-help-window makes temp-buffer-browse useless

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 14:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 17109, 17966

Found in versions 24.3, 24.4.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 16038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 16038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#16038: 24.3; latest change to with-help-window makes
 temp-buffer-browse useless
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:48:46 -0800 (PST)

> Martin, now that we have this good news, will you be able to go ahead
> with deprecating with-output-to-temp-buffer and merge it with
> with-temp-buffer-window or vice versa?

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.
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