bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> emacs -Q
>
> M-x customize-option RET abbrev-file-name RET
>
> Put point after the c:/ in the default value c:/.abbrev_defs, and hit
> C-k.
>
> M-x widget-complete RET
>
> (See bug #6830 - the completion candidates are the files in the current
> dir, not the files in c:/.)
>
> You now have two windows in the only frame: (1) Customize, (2)
> *Completions*.
>
> Still with point in the edit field of the Customize buffer:
>
> M-x report-emacs-bug RET fffffffffff RET
>
> In the only existing frame, you now have two windows: (1) *Bug Help*,
> (2) *Completions*, with the first of these selected.
>
> The only important buffer to show at this point is completely hidden:
> *unsent mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org*.  No way for a user to report the
> bug, unless s?he knows both (a) that there is a buffer somewhere,
> waiting for user input to report the bug and (b) how to show that
> buffer.

Is this still a problem in Emacs 24.3?  The code in this area has gotten
a lot of churn...

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