Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:16:50 +0200
> 
> In general, (I think) that allow to support commands that are available in
> selected-window, to be executed in other-window, but does not have access to
> commands defined in other-window, and naturally we can't executed commands 
> from
> selected-window if they are not supported in other-window. With other words, 
> if
> set of commands from selected window is S and set of commands in other-window 
> is
> O, than this will work in on the intersect of those commands, S∩O. Perhaps 
> there
> is more to it, but I think that is the minimal requirement (the commands has 
> to
> work on both buffers).

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here.  What
exactly is the minimum requirement, and why?

> Potentially it can also result in many bug repports and /r/Emacs threads where
> people wonder why it does not work some command Foo in other buffer.

If we have a good reason why it doesn't work, we will explain it.  And
if we don't have a good reason, we can add another binding.  Where's
the problem?