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Bogus transient windows in Unipress Emacs

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From: Landon Curt Noll
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 08:58
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***FLAME ON***
In Unipress 2.10, they use a Bogus system of transient/typeout windows.  For
example you do an:  apropos "buf"  and they throw up this 'More' mode like
window that you must page through or recursive edit.  Try to invoke any
non-More-mode key and it deletes the help buffer.  So much for trying to
be a modeless editor!

What ever happened to the old days of plopping a help buffer on your screen
and allowing you to play with it?  Why can't they just leave the information
around and allow me to edit/scan/delete it in my own time and my own way?  
Why didn't the Unipress folks allow you to disable this BOGUS mode?
***FLAME OFF***

I looked for a simple or semi-simple way to yank this garbage and didn't find
a way offhand.  Many packages in Unipress use the 'use-transient-window', 
'use-typeout-window' and 'edit-in-transient-window' garbage.  Any clues as
to how I can disable this bogusness?

chongo <Unipress 2.x sold me on GNU emacs> /\oo/\
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	    [people at Amdahl Corp never say things like this]
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From: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Bogus transient windows in Unipress Emacs
Message-ID: <3948@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 04:58:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3948
Posted: Tue Oct 14 04:58:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Oct-86 07:39:09 EDT
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen house
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Keywords: bogus,Unipress,transient