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quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 38164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:20:09 +0100

> (progn
>    (man "XYZ")
>    (read-string "--> "))
>
> 'read-string' activates the minibuffer, but asynchronous Man-bgproc-sentinel
> later calls 'quit-restore-window' that selects its previous window,
> ignoring the fact that now the selected window was in the minibuffer.
> So we need an exception for the case of active minibuffer.

So what you want is probably (twice)

      (when (and (window-live-p (nth 2 quit-restore))
                 (not (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window))))
	(select-window (nth 2 quit-restore))))

But note that quitting the minibuffer will restore the previous window
configuration and thus undo that selection and all other changes done
by 'quit-restore-window' anyway.

martin

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