bug#9054: 24.0.50; show source in other window

[Arthur Miller]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> Mine is similar; but after I have used my own patch for two days now, it is
>> actually convenient to use it as a source browser. Especially since you can
>> scroll it from the source window, and you can also click in the source code 
>> in
>> help buffer itself, C-h f or C-h o, and it will open under the mouse in the 
>> same
>> window and I can switch back and forward. It is almost in a way more 
>> convenient
>> than jumping in source files.
>
> I just did C-h f whitespace-display-window, from there went to that
> function's source and added a doc-string for it.  Displaying the source
> in the help window would have been merely distracting in this scenario.
>
Ok, but that is diferrent usage scenario :). You are completely changing
requirement there. What you describe is indeed more handy when you wish to hack
a function. But when you do not wish to hack it, but would like to see what it
does, but stay in the same buffer you were edited, than what you describe would
be nuissance and distraction.

Also, consider again, people new to Emacs. Having source auto shown to them,
makes them probably more akin to see what is going on, how things work and give
more incitament to explore. I think.