GNU bug report logs - #17210
24.3.50; help mode [back] link to a C-h b keybind listing fails with message "Current buffer is not in Help mode"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ian Kelling <ian <at> iankelling.org>

Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 23:49:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 17210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 17210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, ian <at> iankelling.org
Subject: Re: bug#17210: 24.3.50; help mode [back] link to a C-h b keybind
 listing fails with message	"Current buffer is not in Help mode"
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:18:33 +0200
> For `C-h b' it was broken by design because after killing the initial buffer:
>
> 1. C-h b
> 2. click function name link
> 3. kill *scratch*
> 4. click back
>
> clicking on [back] fails with the error "Selecting deleted buffer".

Well, we could handle that more smoothly.  But the principal problem
remains - namely that going back all of a sudden describes different
bindings.

martin




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