bug#9054: 24.0.50; show source in other window

[martin rudalics]

>> The question here is whether you want to follow that "chain of calls" in
>> the same window where *Help* appeared or in another one - by default the
>> one selected when you did C-h f.
>
> Yes, that would be my preference.

Did you try Juri's proposal?

>>> But sometimes I do want to look at what the manual says, in which case I
>>> want to pop back to the *Help* buffer and hit `i'.  So in that case I
>>> don't want the *Help* buffer buried.
>>
>> Since you use the idiom "pop back" it seems that you did manage to use the
>> former *Help* window for "s".
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here?  I don't mean anything in
> particular with "pop back" here other than "change to the buffer".

Sorry.  I didn't know about these keybinding like "s" and "i" in
`help-mode'.  I invented similar ones long before and still use them.

>>> I don't want the buffer config to be restored after `s'.
>>
>> Does "s" ever do such a thing?  What is a "buffer config"?  A window
>> configuration?
>
> Yes, I meant window configuration, and no, but you asked, I think?

I did.

martin