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bug#57816: 28.2; Renaming a help buffer from help-mode-hook
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#57816: 28.2; Renaming a help buffer from help-mode-hook |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:51:26 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> In GNU Emacs 28.2, I would like to automatically rename help buffers so
> their name reflect their content. For example, I want *Help: car*
> instead of just *Help* for the help buffer of `car'. Unfortunately,
> adding #'rename-buffer to `help-mode-hook' doesn't work as this results
> in 2 buffers instead of just one:
>
> emacs --batch -Q \
> --eval "(add-hook 'help-mode-hook (lambda () (rename-buffer \"*foo*\")))"
> \
> --eval "(describe-function #'describe-function)" \
> --eval "(prin1 (cons (get-buffer \"*Help*\") (get-buffer \"*foo*\")))"
>
> prints
>
> (#<buffer *Help*> . #<buffer *foo*>)
>
> After the "rename", there is still a buffer with the old name. Is there
> a more correct way to do this?
I can reproduce this in Emacs 28.2, but not in Emacs 29, so it looks
like this has been fixed already.