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

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 38164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:13:46 +0200

>> (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.

Is it possible to not restore the previous window configuration
when quitting the minibuffer?

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