Make Helpful buffers behave better about helpful HOT 10 CLOSED

OK, this should now be fixed. Let me know if not.

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Thanks for reporting!

Your first issue is a bug with elisp-refs. Would you mind opening an issue there?

The second issue has been fixed in #35 :)

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I'll be more than happy to file a bug on elisp-refs, but can you give me a bit more specifics on it? For instance, why calling find-file should not create a persistent buffer on my Emacs?

If that is the expected behavior, how are you trying to not have the persistent buffer when calling find'file?

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OK, I may have misunderstood you. Suppose you look up a function foo-bar in a file foo.el. Are you saying that:

1. M-x helpful-function RET foo-bar RET is also opening foo.el in a buffer, or:

2. Pressing RET on a reference in the Helpful buffer is opening foo.el in a buffer?

Option 1 would be a bug, whereas 2 is intended behaviour (but all behaviour is open for discussion if it doesn't fit your workflow).

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What happens is 1

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@Wilfred this is actually one of the few things that's preventing me moving to helpful full time, can you confirm that this is a bug with helpful?

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Unfortunately, it's not.

If you open emacs and call describe-function, then choose enable-theme. Helpful will open 2 buffers:

1. *helpful: enable-theme*
2. custom.el.gz

I just updated emacs and helpful just to be sure, and the behavior is still the same.
Also, if I describe anything else, hepful will keep one buffer for each "help" I get. I understand that some people might find that useful, but wouldn't be possible to have a flag to make it behave just like plain old help (one buffer for all help messages you can get)?

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Sure, I understand creating multiple helpful buffers may not be to everyone's taste :). Would you mind creating a separate issue?

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Sure, just ask as a question. Some project have an adamant opinion about features. Just wanted to get the feel :)

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Are you sure you'd upgraded? I've added a test too, to confirm this bug is fixed.

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