From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completion-list-mode-map Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87fwkzrcvz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4DEA3F21.2020302@gmail.com> <4E07B9F0.3080102@gmail.com> <4E0F40A1.3020503@gmail.com> <4E0FB543.9040608@gmail.com> <4E13BC5A.2070007@gmail.com> <4E191159.1080501@gmail.com> <4E375A1C.6020108@gmail.com> <87ty9jganp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r54md7yt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E4ABCA1.1060703@gmx.at> <4E4AD90C.4060007@gmx.at> <87hb5h6mg4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E4B848D.1040007@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313613585 15898 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2011 20:39:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph Scholtes , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 22:39:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtmtl-00011H-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:39:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtmtk-0002b5-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtmth-0002an-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtmtg-0004fP-Eh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:45062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtmtg-0004fF-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-225-145.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7HKdSbO017439 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:39:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E4B848D.1040007@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:06:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143379 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: >> Any other reason? > > Yes. As a rule, window functions consider WINDOW nil as the selected > window. `quit-window' doesn't. The callers to quit-window will just have to deal with that. > I'm afraid that `quit-window' aficionados might not be all too happy. > That function has a quite separate history and is mostly > `switch-to-buffer' optionally killing or burying the current buffer. That is exactly the problem with `quit-window' that is being discussed in this thread.