Re: Quit and Close Emacs Special Windows

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 03:09:59PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:

Hi Drew:

1) Should we provide a custom variable to conditionally enable the
set-window-parameter part of your code within quit-window?

2) I am not very trained in lisp, so I must ask if you think that this
changes is general enough for all the buffers like: Help, man, Compile,
magit etc?? and won't conflict with others? 

if 1 && 2): as this is your code, could you please add the changes if
nobody has any concern about it?

Best and thanks,
Ergus

>
>FWIW, I do this:
>
>(defun quit-window-delete (&optional kill window)
>  "Quit WINDOW, deleting it, and bury its buffer.
>WINDOW must be a live window and defaults to the selected one.
>With prefix argument KILL non-nil, kill the buffer instead of
>burying it.
>
>This is similar to the version of `quit-window' that Emacs had before
>the introduction of `quit-restore-window'.  It ignores the information
>stored in WINDOW's `quit-restore' window parameter.
>
>It deletes the WINDOW more often, rather than switching to another
>buffer in it.  If WINDOW is alone in its frame then the frame is
>deleted or iconified, according to option `frame-auto-hide-function'."
>  (interactive "P")
>  (set-window-parameter
>    window 'quit-restore `(frame frame nil ,(current-buffer)))
>  (quit-restore-window window (if kill 'kill 'bury)))
>
>(global-set-key [remap quit-window] 'quit-window-delete)
>
>I also use dedicated windows for buffers with names `*...*',
>and I make frame "hiding" delete frames rather than iconify.
>
>(setq special-display-regexps '("[ ]?[*][^*]+[*]"))
>(setq frame-auto-hide-function 'delete-frame)
>
>