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[PATCH] New hook 'help-setup-hook'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Subject: bug#73637: closed (Re: bug#73637: [PATCH] New hook 'help-setup-hook')
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:35:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#73637: [PATCH] New hook 'help-setup-hook'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 73637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 73637-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73637: [PATCH] New hook 'help-setup-hook'
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 04:34:38 +0300

On 05/10/2024 16:32, Eshel Yaron wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dmitry <at> gutov.dev> writes:
> 
>> Have you tried going in the other direction? Meaning, killing all locals
>> by default but keeping the ones that are really needed.
>>
>> This is less backward compatible, but ultimately a more predictable and
>> common design. This seems to work okay here:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
> 
>> Looking at the patch from a distance it makes me wonder whether we
>> shouldn't call `kill-all-local-variables` instead?
>> IOW instead of listing all the vars that need to be killed, change to
>> code to preserve the few vars that should not be killed.
> SGTM, that works too and it's definitely a simpler approach.

Great! I've pushed that patch, please report any new regressions.

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From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] New hook 'help-setup-hook'
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:14:54 +0200

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Tags: patch

Add a new hook that allows commands that make use of bespoke variable
settings in the *Help* buffer to clean up after themselves.  This
generalizes and improves the accuracy of the hard-coded clean up that
help-setup-xref currently performs.

[0001-New-hook-help-setup-hook.patch (text/patch, attachment)]

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