GNU bug report logs - #50881
C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:11:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 50881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:58:08 +0300

>> 'show-paren-mode' should be disabled in all read-only buffers.
>
> If the problem is with *Help* and other documentation buffers, why
> turn it off in _all_ read-only buffers?  The latter is a much broader
> category.  For example, debugging Lisp with Edebug makes the source
> buffer read-only.

Maybe with Edebug it makes sense, I don't know because I immediately
disabled it globally, and noticed the problem only while trying
to reproduce the reported bug with 'emacs -Q'.
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