From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Should delete-window switch to next buffer when there is only one window? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:31:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140114223057.GA27881@doriath.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389792718 3030 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 13:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:31:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 14:32:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZd-0003Nv-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:32:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZd-0000b5-CM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:32:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZM-0000Yz-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZF-0001Yt-C4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZF-0001Ym-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3QZE-0002WA-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:31:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.140.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:31:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:31:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yyTcellr4IiSxRlsrTevtLSljw0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95413 Archived-At: > Currently if you attempt to delete an only window, the following message > shows up > Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary window > I think that perhaps it would be better if it switched buffers instead. > What do you think? While it might make a lot of sense in the way you use delete-window, it does not make sense in general (e.g. it makes no sense in the way I use delete-window, for example). For me, when there's only one window left, delete-window should delete the window's frame, and if it's the last frame, then it should kill Emacs. But I'm not sure this behavior would make sense for all users either. Stefan