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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:53:29 +0100

>>   > 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.
>>
>> IIUC Juri doesn't want to quit help.  He wants to leave the
>> minibuffer, maybe for running another command.
>
> Apologies if I was confused, but Juri explicitly asked about "quitting
> the minibuffer".

Quitting help should never destroy a window layout these days.  If it
did, we'd have a bug.  Quitting the minibuffer, for example via C-g,
may destroy the window layout (of two frames even).  But I'll let Juri
speak for himself now.

martin

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