From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configurations Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:06:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4C09087C.5090808@gmx.at> References: <4BB4CF6B.2000007@alice.it> <871vdu6qn5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87bpcv1wvt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE13828.2030609@gmx.at> <87vdb2qo82.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE27C17.3030005@gmx.at> <87vdav4vx5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE900E7.3090402@gmx.at> <87r5liqv8f.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BEA74DC.2060103@gmx.at> <87y6fns8qo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BECF4D6.9030707@gmx.at> <87632na2af.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4C03F1B5.8040708@gmx.at> <4C04D1BF.9070902@gmx.at> <87hblmv9s3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4C0655D1.60205@gmx.at> <87eigps0gn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4C076E7A.8060803@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275661325 31555 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2010 14:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 04 16:22:03 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKXmc-0004ro-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:22:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKXma-0001iS-KJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56646 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKXYD-00036A-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKXY0-0001GJ-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43368) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKXY0-0001G1-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Jun 2010 14:06:54 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-44-33.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.44.33]) [62.47.44.33] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 04 Jun 2010 16:06:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18poTl+9bApMcOSB3UsBh5dKEJ8m6UN4oe7SLnBR4 L1ZKSVdxv/VAl+ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:125509 Archived-At: > What was the problem with quitting? > > If it is a matter of deleting a window, it is a bug to quit anywhere > in the middle of that. It has to be either done completely or not > done at all. Therefore it must not use functions that can quit. > Or else it has to inhibit quitting some other way. It's not related to window deletion. When Emacs buries a buffer it first removes the buffer from the buffer list and then adds it to the end of that list in the following way: aelt = Frassq (buffer, Vbuffer_alist); link = Fmemq (aelt, Vbuffer_alist); Vbuffer_alist = Fdelq (aelt, Vbuffer_alist); XSETCDR (link, Qnil); Vbuffer_alist = nconc2 (Vbuffer_alist, link); If the Fdelq above quits, the buffer is lost (in some sense). The code for record_buffer avoids the problem but chokes on circular lists. martin