From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:20:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICKEEJCHAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87is2c7mnx.fsf@brockman.se>
I've always found it annoying that Emacs seems to have a habit of
leaving junk windows around whenever you invoke something that needs
to display information in a temporary buffer....
I realize that you can't expect Emacs to know when you are done with a
window unless you actually tell when. The obvious way to tell when is
to type `C-x 1' or `C-x 0', but this leaves the temporary buffer
lingering, which makes me nervous....
When I was new to Emacs, I would always kill a garbage buffer before
deleting its temporary window. Eventually, I discovered `C-x 4 0' and
started using that....
I believe the Right Thing to do when the user kills a temporary buffer
whose window was created as a side-effect of displaying the buffer in
question is to restore the old window configuration. At least when
the automatically created window hasn't been used for anything else,
Emacs should take the hint and get the window out of the user's face.
The annoyance you describe is, I think, exacerbated (or perhaps is only
manifest?) when one uses one window per frame by default, as I do. And
commands like `delete-window' and `kill-buffer-and-window' don't help in
this regard, with one-window frames.
FWIW, I customized a few things in my Emacs to deal with this. I mention it
for those who might be interested, not as a proposal to change Emacs itself.
If interested, see the short description at
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Delete_Frames_Easily_-_But_Not_Too_Eas
ily.
Wrt various efforts to deal with this and your comments on deleting windows
and killing buffers: Deleting a window should not, in general, delete (kill)
its buffer, but killing a buffer _interactively_ can often reasonably delete
its window too (and frame, if `one-window-p').
- Drew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-25 17:20 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
2005-04-26 10:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-25 17:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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