From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window? Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:35:23 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114360976 3340 80.91.229.2 (24 Apr 2005 16:42:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 18:42:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPkBU-0004eP-GT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPkGq-0004bT-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPkGi-0004bE-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPkGh-0004al-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPkGh-0003it-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.49.134] (helo=acm.acm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DPkBj-0008KY-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by acm.acm (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00545 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:35:24 GMT X-Sender: root@acm.acm Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36329 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36329 On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: >On 24 Apr 2005, Daniel Brockman wrote, > I've always found it annoying that Emacs seems to have a habit of > leaving junk windows around whenever you invoke something ... >Most often, I just want to bury the buffer, not delete it. Your two >examples of buffers you want to delete are buffers I tend to want to >look at again, the ones created by `M-x compile' and `C-h f' >(describe-function). >To me, it looks that you want `C-x 4 0' (kill-buffer-and-window) to be >documented more prominently. What would you like specifically? I'd like C-x 4 0 to just do its job without mithering me with "kill buffer `foo'? (yes or no)", unless it's an actual changed buffer that's getting killed. >Put another way, how should we change the documentation in >(emacs)Change Window? Right now `C-x 4 0' is third in the sequence, >after `C-x 0' and `C-x 1'. That looks right to me. >-- > Robert J. Chassell -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany).