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25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:17:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 20020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:15:38 -0800 (PST)

In my case, Info buffers (*info* and *info<N>*) are in dedicated
windows.  I expect `info-display-manual' to select such an existing
window.  That is, if the Calc manual is already displayed in an Info
buffer and I use `M-x info-display-manual' from some other buffer, I
expect the existing window showing that manual to be selected (and its
frame raised and focused, if necessary).

Instead, `info-display-manual' displays the manual in the same window
where I invoke it, resulting in two windows (and frames in my case)
showing the same Info manual.



In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-02-27 on LEG570
Bzr revision: b2a590d4e3dc692a97c1b53e015b945d84b4b4c7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs'
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 225 days ago.

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