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From: phr@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Bogus transient windows in Unipress Emacs
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 19:41:12 EDT
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In article <1407@Diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) writes:
>It's true that Unipress 2.xx moved help information into a transient window,
>making it act like almost all other Emacses in existence.  I, for one, got
>really tired of that stupid help buffer sucking up half the screen all the
>time.  Note, however, that the help buffer in Unipress 2.x is called "Help",
>and you can use it like any other buffer.  So if you want to look at the 
>help again, use your favorite "make buffer visible" function on it.

I first saw the technique of popping up a new buffer to display help,
etc. in Gosling Emacs.  The file etc/DIFF in the GNU Emacs
distribution (which describes differences between GNU Emacs and PDP-10
Emacs) says this about it:

  ** There is no concept of "typeout" in GNU Emacs.

  Any time that a command wants to display some output,
  it creates a buffer (usually with a name surrounded by asterisks)
  and displays it in a window.

  This provides some advantages:
   you can edit some more while looking at the output;
   you can copy parts of the output into other buffers.

  It also has a disadvantage that you must type a command
  in order to make the output disappear.
  You can use C-x 1 to get rid of all windows except the
  selected one.  To be more selective, you can switch to
  the window you want to get rid of and then type C-x 0
  (delete-window).

  You also need to type a command to scroll the other
  window if not all the output fits in it.  Meta-Control-v
  will usually do the job.