bug#4979: 23.1.50; describe-text-properties produces *Help* buffer without back/forward buttons
Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:23:31 +0100
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Hello! When executing describe-text-properties on some character a *Help* buffer is created or updated with some text content, for example: Text content at position 234: There is an overlay here: From 234 to 246 font-lock-face comint-highlight-prompt There are text properties here: field output fontified t front-sticky (field inhibit-line-move-field-capture) inhibit-line-move-field-capture t rear-nonsticky t Similarly C-u C-x = produces a *Help* buffer without [back] and/or [forward] buttons. No matter how often I repeat these two commands, no button is created. But when I run describe-variable or describe- function and a [back] button is created by them in *Help* buffer, then describe-text-properties (or C-u C-x =) kind of inherit this feature and create *Help* buffers with a [back] button. Shouldn't all functions which overwrite the previous contents of *Help* buffer also insert that [back] button? In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, GTK+ Version 2.18.2) of 2009-11-18 on Latsche.local Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000 configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--x-libraries=/opt/local/lib' '--x- includes=/opt/local/include' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ Emacs' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/ pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CPPFLAGS=-no- cpp-precomp' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -gfull -mtraceback=full -Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -mtune=G4 -fast -mpim-altivec - ftree-vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks -fthread- jumps -fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip - multiply_defined suppress'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Shell Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Features: (shadow mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug sendmail regexp-opt pp wid-edit shell comint ring descr-text help-mode easymenu view tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind font-render-setting system-font-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) -- Greetings Pete Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you've depleted the lake.