Re: Quit and Close Emacs Special Windows

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 05:00:01PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
>
>No idea; sorry.  I'm just saying what I do.
>
>The definition of `quit-window-delete' that I use
>has this comment:
>
> ;; Candidate as a replacement for `quit-window',
> ;; at least when used interactively.  For example:
> ;; (define-key global-map [remap quit-window] 'quit-window-delete)
> ;;
> ;; Thanks to Martin Rudalics for suggestions.
>
>Someone else will need to make changes to Emacs, if
>such is decided.
>
>The things I mentioned don't necessarily belong
>together for others.  For me they make sense together.
>
>For example, making buffers `*...*' special-display
>is unrelated to quitting help buffers with `q'.
>
I tried your code for making buffers `*...*' special-display and as I
only use -nw the behavior is not good. The first time I call commands
like `man' nothing happens in the front but the buffer starts in the
backend.

In gui the behavior is fine as expected.

>But for me it makes sense.  I show all such buffers
>in their own dedicated window (frame, in fact), and
>when I use `q' to quit the buffer I want to delete
>the frame.  I imagine that at least some others won't
>want such behavior.
>
>Do I think that it would be good to have a simple way
>to get `q' to delete the window?  Yes.  Do I think it
>would be good to have a simple way for `q' to delete
>a one-window frame?  Yes.  But someone else will need
>to think about and decide whether that's helpful in
>general and, if so, what's the best way to offer it.

I think that with a simple variable and an `or` in the condition will be
good enough (something like quit-always-kill or so).

The only corned case I can imagine so far is the case where quit-window
is not called from `q' in not *...* buffers. But I don't know if that
even happen.

Hopefully someone will come with a better solution...

Best,
Ergus.