Subject: Re: bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:09:20 +0200

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Severity: minor
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. C-h C-s f RET
>
> You are now looking at an empty " *Metahelp*" buffer.
>
> My expectation is that the help screen gets displayed before the search
> starts.

Yup.  And the doc string isn't very helpful:

Search forward "help window".

Which sounds like it's talking about the *Help* window, not the `C-h
C-h' help-for-help window.

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