From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
Subject: Re: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:50:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7gzyel3.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1DPoZ3-0005Cw-Iz@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> You shouldn't consider these [temporary] buffers a problem.
You're right, I really shouldn't. I'm mostly over it these days.
Midnight mode helps, too.
> Finding "the right way" to remove a temporary buffer from the screen
> is a very hard problem. Nobody has ever proposed a solution that
> really is right all the time, or even nearly all the time.
> View mode has tried to implement one, but it too has problems.
Granted, but I'm not trying to debate "the right way" to remove a
temporary buffer from the screen. I'm proposing that when a temporary
buffer is killed, TRYING to also remove the associated window might in
itself be the right thing.
The actual algorithm to do this is already in place; it has seen heavy
use by View mode and descendants. In that case, it's just a matter of
invoking it as a response to `C-x k' as well as to `q' key presses.
(add-hook 'help-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(make-local-hook 'kill-buffer-hook)
(add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'View-leave t t)))
> I don't want to spend time on thinking about it because I think it
> is unlikely to get anywhere.
To be honest, I'm growing less and less confident myself that it would
be the best default behavior. While many people would definitely find
it convenient, I suspect others would just be confused or annoyed.
--
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-24 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-24 5:45 Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window? Daniel Brockman
2005-04-24 11:02 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-04-24 13:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-04-25 10:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-04-24 21:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-24 22:50 ` Daniel Brockman [this message]
2005-04-26 10:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-25 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2005-04-25 21:38 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-04-25 17:22 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-04-25 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-25 19:37 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-04-26 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-26 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-25 13:41 David Reitter
2005-04-25 14:11 ` Daniel Brockman
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