From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: annoyances Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:06:57 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87mxso2nr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87aaoo7pmj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281866848 22933 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2010 10:07:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:07:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 12:07:27 2010 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 1Oka7i-0006m5-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oka7h-0005g5-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37824 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oka7U-0005fG-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oka7P-0008WI-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oka7P-0008W3-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oka7N-0006ca-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:07:05 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ec9df.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.201.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:07:05 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ec9df.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:07:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ec9df.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ChmZ8RuLFifCpNG9GbI0H04XMM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128733 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: > On 8/15/2010 12:15 AM, Chong Yidong wrote: >> When there are no changes, `C-x v D' does something annoying: it shrinks >> the window showing the *vc-diff* buffer to three lines tall. This makes >> the window useless for displaying other buffers; you have to resize it >> or delete it. > > I find it annoying too, and I will be glad if it is gone. > > While we are on the matter of annoyances, I am also quite annoyed by > Emacs switching windows without a definitive reason. > > For instance, `o' in a dired window switches to the other window. > And, I have to switch back to dired in order to go and view another > file. Well, don't use `o' then. Duh. That's what C-o is for. Unfortunately, C-o has the side effect of loading the file into a buffer. And the buffer then stays around. It would be nice to have dired record when a buffer only becomes populated by C-o and kill it when the window gets deleted or reassociated without the buffer ever becoming the current buffer. `o' currently has the advantage that you can move back into dired using C-x 4 0 (why doesn't C-x 4 k work? That binding is quite more mnemonic) and get rid of the buffer that way. -- David Kastrup