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#17966
select-safe-coding-system-interactively expects with-output-to-temp-buffer to set up help-mode
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Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 17:02:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: confirmed
Merged with 16038,
17109
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 #20 received at 17966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> >> Perhaps it depends on pre-existing contents of the bookmarks file;
> >> mine is empty.
> >
> > I've just verified that the problem persists even if I rename
> > "~/.emacs.d" to something else before running Emacs.
>
> Perhaps the key difference between your environment and mine is that I
> have makeinfo version 5.2, which produces the special (non-ascii)
> quotation chars ‘ and ’, and you may have an older version which
> produces ` and ' instead.
>
> Can you reproduce the problem with the following recipe?
>
> emacs -Q
> (set-language-environment 'latin-1)
> Visit the attached file.
> C-u 9 C-n
> C-x r m RET
> M-x bookmark-save RET
Sounds similar to what was reported in bug #17568, which I'm
guessing has to do with existing code expecting a buffer to be in
`help-mode' after `with-output-to-temp-buffer'. IOW, perhaps
more collateral damage from bug #17109. Just a hunch.
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 284 days ago.
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