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Subject: Re: Patch to *Help* that is smarter(?) about restoring window-config
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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Pete Ware writes:

> The following patch attempts to make "q" in the *Help* buffer be
> smarter about restoring the window configuration.  In particular, if
> the help buffer is already displayed in the current frame, it doesn't
> update the configuration -- so when you type "q", you actually return
> to the previous window configuration that did not include "*Help*".

O.K.  That sounds good.

> It also makes the help window configuration a per-frame resource so
> each frame can have it's own previous window configuration.

O.K.  That sounds good *if* the user has selected this as an option.

> Unfortunately, each frame uses the same help buffer (hmm, I wonder if
> it would be worthwhile to make the help buffer be frame specific --
> i.e. each frame keeps it's own help buffer?)

That would be a good idea.

(Thanks for the patch, I've applied it to 19.15-b102 and 20.1-b9)
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