Subject: Re: bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:28:35 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:21:27 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Sometimes to get help on a previously run M-x command, typing
> 
>   M-x M-p C-h f RET
> 
> displays the function Help window about the previous command. Then clicking
> on the link with the source file name in the Help buffer opens its source code.
> This creates a nice window layout with the Help window and the source window.
> But quitting the minibuffer destroys this nice layout, and returns some
> old obsolete layout.  Why should it do this?

Because that's what quitting help does?  If you don't want this, just
don't quit; you can simply leave the windows as they were and
continue.