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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:04:44 +0300

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:50:36 +0200
> 
> Another problem with the above is that this will work only for 'other-window'
> for which Emacs has an algorithm to figure out which window it is. But what 
> when
> you have more then two windows, and wish to switch to a different window than
> what Emacs considers as 'other-window'? You will have to prompt the user, to
> choose one.

Not necessarily: since the commands know they are about *Help* and
*info* buffers, they could find the "correct" window themselves.  (The
case of more than one *Help* window on the same frame is rare enough
to be ignored, I think.)



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