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global-hi-lock-mode prompts on its own help

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 76687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76687: global-hi-lock-mode prompts on its own help
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:33:46 +0200

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:49:15 -0500
> 
> >From emacs -Q, M-x global-hi-lock-mode, then C-h m, then quit the help
> buffer, and type C-h m again.  You'll get prompted about whether you
> want to apply the hi-lock patterns in the help buffer.  And then,
> because for some reason we don't actually clear the help buffer but just
> narrow it to what we want, the next time you ask for help, even on
> something unrelated to hi-lock (e.g. progn), hi-lock will ask you
> whether you want to apply hi-lock patterns.

That's the default of hi-lock-file-patterns-policy, no?  IIUC, hi-lock
asks this question for every file you visit, if it finds the patterns
there.

Or what am I missing?

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