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

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Message #68 received at 16038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>, 16038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16038: 24.3;
 latest change to with-help-window makes temp-buffer-browse useless
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

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