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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window w
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed |
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Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:08:39 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, 20020@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:51:29 +0200
>
> M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
> C-x 2
> C-x b *scratch*
> M-: (info-display-manual "Coreutils")
>
> You'll now have two windows displaying the same Info buffer, and that
> was what the user didn't want (and I agree that it's not optimal
> behaviour). In the user's case, it was exacerbated by having the window
> displayed in a different frame, but that's just a detail.
If this is the change, then I think it should be an opt-in change. We
don't behave like that with any other buffers, why should Info buffers
be an exception by default?
bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed, Juri Linkov, 2019/10/09