zoo@APS1.SPA.UMN.EDU ("david d [zoo] zuhn") (03/05/91)
I'd like to have my *Help* buffer in view mode by default, so that I can page through it in the same general way I can page through the *info* buffer (space to scroll down, etc.) I see a view-mode in view.el, but there is a note saying that bad things will happen if it is called without a buffer attached, so it looks like I cannot just add ("\\*Help\\*$" . view-mode) to the auto-mode-alist. Then in help.el I see that output is done with "with-output-to-temp-buffer", so I wrote a small function to set the mode to view-mode, if the buffer name is "*Help*": (defun temp-mode-view (buffer) (if (string-match (buffer-name buffer) "*Help*") (view-mode buffer))) (setq temp-buffer-show-hook 'temp-mode-view) This seems to be in the right general direction, but I get a recursive edit whenever I use help now. Has someone done this (*Help* in view-mode) and made it work? Thanks. david d [zoo] zuhn Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Astronomy zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu Automated Plate Scanner Project