Subject: bug#17671: closed (Re: bug#17671: 24.3.91; RET on a link in *Help* buffer resizes *Help*)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:33:03 +0000

Your bug report

#17671: 24.3.91; RET on a link in *Help* buffer resizes *Help*

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#17671: 24.3.91; RET on a link in *Help* buffer resizes *Help*
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:32:09 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:40:39 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked]
> 
>  >> Maybe we should not _decrease_ the size of a window when displaying
>  >> another buffer in it - this would take care of your use case.
>  >
>  > Sounds good to me.
> 
> OK.  I made the change on the release branch.  Please test it.

Thanks, it works just fine.

Subject: 24.3.91; RET on a link in *Help* buffer resizes *Help*
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:45:37 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

In "emacs -Q":

  C-h f line-move-visual RET
  C-x o
  move to the link under "simple.el" and type RET
  drag the mode line so that the lower window showing *Help* becomes
   smaller
  move cursor to the first call to vertical-motion
  C-h f RET
  C-x o
  move to the link under "C source code" and type RET
  the window showing *Help* is resized back to half the frame

This is annoying.  I like my *Help* windows to be small, but many
times (but not always) they are resized when I need to request
documentation of something else.

Why cannot Emacs keep the size of that window?

In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.32 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-06-02 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Repository revision: 117194 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/d/usr --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0
 -gdwarf-2 -g3''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1255

Major mode: C/l

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
C-h f l i n e - m o v e - v i s u <tab> <return> C-x 
o <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <drag-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <C-right> C-h f <return> C-x o <down> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <return> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Memory information:
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