Re: Quit and Close Emacs Special Windows

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

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Hi Stefan:

As "this behavior" I mean that pressing q effectively closes the buffer instead of keeping it around in the buffer list. When working in big projects with too many files usually there are too many *-...-* buffers (magit, compile, man, logs...). And the user needs to keep closing them constantly (with C-u q or explicitly)
This is not only annoying some times (for example for rotating buffers with C-x right) but also is somehow unnatural for term users who are used to call ex. man from the terminal and quit quickly to continue.

On June 30, 2020 7:04:57 PM GMT+02:00, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I have been reading this site:
>>
>> https://christiantietze.de/posts/2019/10/emacs-quit-special-windows/
>>
>> and I am wondering why we don't provide an option to enable this
>> behaviour by default in some cases without needing the "hack" in the
>> link.  It doesn't seems to be too complex to implement right?
>
>What do you mean by "this behavior"?
>
>I just tried
>
>    emacs -Q
>    M-x compile
>    ..select the compilation window...
>    q
>
>and sure enough I was back to a single-window setup.
>So, IIUC we already provide "this behavior".
>
>> I know it is just a detail, but in some cases (like when using man or
>> compile mode, or reading a function documentation, or after executing
>> magit commands) it doesn't make sense to keep the buffer in the
>buffer
>> list after pressing q in 90% of the times.
>
>I don't understand the connection with the previous paragraph.
>
>
>        Stefan

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