RE: Can't see help window until I select it
David Karr writes:
Emacs-version: "21.4 (patch 22) \"Instant Classic\"
XEmacs Lucid"
on
XP.
OK. That's a little strange then, that one has been out for a little
while, and we haven't seen reports like this. I suppose it could be
an issue with a new Cygwin.
I do get a useless DOS window when I run XEmacs, but nothing appears
to
happen with it.
Hm. I thought that was fixed in an earlier release.
> To help debug these, try doing C-h f get-buffer-window-list RET,
then
> if it doesn't show, evaluate
>
> (get-buffer-window-list
> (get-buffer "*Help: function `get-buffer-window-list'*") 0 t)
>
> If it does show, we'll need to try something else.
I did C-h f get-..., it didn't show, then I did meta-x eval-expression and
entered that expression, which returned nil.
OK, then that definitely sounds like a bug. It seems there is no
window displaying it, and there should be.
I tried toggling the values of all three of these. The only one
that
produced any halfway useful results was setting "pop-up-frames" to t. This
at least made the help window immediately visible, in a new frame, which I
now had to manually "C-x 5 0" to get rid of, even after "q" to drop
the help
info. This change might be ok, if I could get "q" to dismiss the frame
also.
I'll consider implementing "q in help window dismisses frame"
(assuming that it's not just another bug), but since it's not your
preferred behavior I don't consider it a solution.
It would probably be best just to get the old expected behavior of
seeing the help in a window in the existing frame, however.
Even if you didn't want this, I'm sure others do.
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