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30.1; describe-input-method does not respect help-window-select

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Package: emacs; Reported by: Sean Devlin <spd@HIDDEN>; dated Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:31:01 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.

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Subject: Re: bug#78166: 30.1;
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> From: Sean Devlin <spd@HIDDEN>
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 21:52:14 -0400
> Cc: 78166 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 
> 
> > On May 1, 2025, at 1:45 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@HIDDEN> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> From: Sean Devlin <spd@HIDDEN>
> >> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:01:11 -0400
> >> 
> >> I see now that the documentation for help-window-select says:
> >> 
> >> This option has effect if and only if the help window was created
> >> by ‘with-help-window’.
> >> 
> >> So maybe this is not a bug per se.
> >> 
> >> Should we improve quail-help to use with-help-window?
> > 
> > Yes, if we want it to heed help-window-select, we should.
> > 
> > Patches welcome.  But please be careful and test the changes
> > thoroughly: AFAIR input-method help has several features thyat we
> > would not like to lose.
> 
> Sounds good. I will give it a try. I’ll mail back here if I run into problems.

Did you have an opportunity to make some progress with this issue?




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> On May 1, 2025, at 1:45=E2=80=AFPM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@HIDDEN> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BF
>>=20
>> From: Sean Devlin <spd@HIDDEN>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:01:11 -0400
>>=20
>> I see now that the documentation for help-window-select says:
>>=20
>> This option has effect if and only if the help window was created
>> by =E2=80=98with-help-window=E2=80=99.
>>=20
>> So maybe this is not a bug per se.
>>=20
>> Should we improve quail-help to use with-help-window?
>=20
> Yes, if we want it to heed help-window-select, we should.
>=20
> Patches welcome.  But please be careful and test the changes
> thoroughly: AFAIR input-method help has several features thyat we
> would not like to lose.

Sounds good. I will give it a try. I=E2=80=99ll mail back here if I run into=
 problems.

Thanks!

>=20
> Thanks.




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> From: Sean Devlin <spd@HIDDEN>
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:01:11 -0400
> 
> I see now that the documentation for help-window-select says:
> 
> This option has effect if and only if the help window was created
> by ‘with-help-window’.
> 
> So maybe this is not a bug per se.
> 
> Should we improve quail-help to use with-help-window?

Yes, if we want it to heed help-window-select, we should.

Patches welcome.  But please be careful and test the changes
thoroughly: AFAIR input-method help has several features thyat we
would not like to lose.

Thanks.




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I see now that the documentation for help-window-select says:

This option has effect if and only if the help window was created
by =E2=80=98with-help-window=E2=80=99.

So maybe this is not a bug per se.

Should we improve quail-help to use with-help-window?

Thanks!=




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Hi folks,

It seems that describe-input-method does not respect
help-window-select. Here is a recipe:

1. Emacs -Q
2. Evaluate:

(setq help-window-select t)

3. C-h I japanese RET

Observe that the help window is not selected.

In contrast, if you do C-h v help-window-select RET, the help window is
selected.

Thanks!

In GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin21.6.0, NS
appkit-2113.65 Version 12.7.6 (Build 21H1320)) of 2025-02-24 built on
armbob.lan
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2575
System Description:  macOS 15.5

Configured using:
'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=10000
-DDARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT' --with-x-toolkit=no'

Configured features:
ACL GLIB GMP GNUTLS JPEG LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG
RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-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
  minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired
dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils pp
cl-print byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile thingatpt cl-extra help-fns
radix-tree japan-util kkc ja-dic-utl quail help-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib
rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win
ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core
term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic
indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 63336 10444) (symbols 48 6466 0) (strings 32 19628 2196)
(string-bytes 1 470258) (vectors 16 12702)
(vector-slots 8 170578 7344) (floats 8 27 2) (intervals 56 267 20)
(buffers 992 14))




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