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24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:45:21 +0200

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Digging through the ChangeLogs, this is apparently the commit that
> added them, but it doesn't say why.
>
> 1999-01-11  Richard Stallman  <rms <at> psilocin.ai.mit.edu>
>
> 	* help.el (help-mode-finish): Renamed from help-mode-maybe.
> 	Don't switch to Help mode here.
> 	(temp-buffer-setup-hook): Use help-mode-finish.
> 	(help-mode-setup): New function.
> 	(temp-buffer-setup-hook): Use help-mode-setup.
>
> Richard, why is `help-mode-setup' run in absolutely all
> `with-output-to-temp-buffer' buffers?  This seems rather un-optimal,
> since that macro is used for many other things than showing help
> buffers.

There's been no response in two months.

I think the following is a bug:

;; This makes `with-output-to-temp-buffer' buffers use `help-mode'.
(add-hook 'temp-buffer-setup-hook 'help-mode-setup)
(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook 'help-mode-finish)

Would removing these be a good idea?

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