Re: major mode in new buffers

[Juri Linkov]

> Well, when I do it, I get a buffer called *Help*, with major-mode
> `help' (not `help-mode'), and the C-x suffix is no longer active (I
> cannot do C-x o, for example, to switch buffers, or C-x C-x to exit
> Emacs).
>
> Don't you see the same thing?

I think what ehelp currently does by default, makes no sense -
it puts the *Help* buffer in fundamental-mode instead of help-mode.

Please look at the code in `with-electric-help':

      ;; We should really get a usable *Help* buffer when retaining
      ;; the electric one with `r'.  The problem is that a simple
      ;; call to help-mode won't cut it; at least RET is bound wrong
      ;; afterwards.  It's also not clear that `help-mode' is always
      ;; the right thing, maybe we should add an optional parameter.
      (condition-case ()
          (funcall (or (default-value 'major-mode) 'fundamental-mode))
        (error nil))

Ehelp creates a problem and tries to solve it in an ugly way.

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Juri Linkov
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