GNU bug report logs - #38164
quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:57:01 UTC

Severity: minor

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:45:08 +0200

Creating a new bug report as a spin-off of bug#19064.

>> But this problem is not new.  The same can be reproduced
>> in older versions with
>>
>> (progn
>>    (man "XYZ")
>>    (read-string "-->"))
>>
>> This is because quit-restore-window moves point to wrong window.
>
> What should 'quit-restore-window' do here in particular?

quit-restore-window should move point to old-selected-window,
i.e. the minibuffer window that was selected before Man-bgproc-sentinel
kicked in.  But I don't understand why it's not doing that.
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