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bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> r
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3> |
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Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:59:18 +0300 |
> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>, 65905@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:58:23 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > It's not? I think it is the same. You wanted a simply way of getting
> > back to a manual that you were reading earlier in the session, which
> > you still have in some Info buffer, no? That's what "C-h R" does: it
> > first looks in the Info buffers already present in the session, and,
> > if not found, then looks for the manual installed on the system. In
> > your case, the first step will succeed.
>
> Speaking for myself: "C-x b PATTERN TAB" is kind of ingrained in my
> muscle memory to switch back to all sorts of buffers I know are open.
> So my brain turns "Switch back to that Info buffer for the FOO manual"
> into "C-x b info TAB", then I stare blankly at the "*info<N>*"
> candidates for a couple of seconds, and pick one at random.
>
> Point taken re. C-h R (which even limits completion to opened manuals
> with C-u, neat), though switching buffers with C-x b is such a generic
> action that I perform dozens of times an hour without thinking twice,
> that I suspect stopping myself from C-x b'ing just for Info buffers is
> going to be hard.
It isn't, rest assured: I walked that way myself.