From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completion-list-mode-map Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:06 -0400 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313526561 5572 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2011 20:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph Scholtes , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 22:29:17 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 1QtQGC-0000ri-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:29:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtQGC-0001yu-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtQG9-0001yc-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtQG8-00075i-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:43952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtQG8-00075Z-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p7GKT7mP029809; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 94480B40F7; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:29:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E4ABCA1.1060703@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:53:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3951=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <3951> : streams <672208> : uri <935807> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:143331 Archived-At: >>> emacs -Q >>> C-h k k => help window pops up >>> C-x o >>> q => help window deleted >> >> OK, that's a bug/misfeature of quit-window which we should fix. >> I.e. not an impediment to using quit-window. > When the help window was reused, q restores its old buffer and its > positions wrt the window. `quit-window' can't do that because it > doesn't know anything about the window's history. > This and some other quirks are avoided by `quit-restore-window'. The thing I don't understand is why we need quit-restore-window rather than changing quit-window (to behave like quit-restore-window)? Stefan