Re: Manual suggestions for quit-restore documentation

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> As mentioned in a thread in emacs.help, I've got some suggestions for
>> the parts of the Elisp manual that touch on the quit-restore window
>> parameter, and its behaviors.
>> 
>> I've attached a diff with my edits; if/when some version of this is
>> eventually approved I can do a proper commit.
>> 
>> I didn't add anything in the Window Parameters section about the first
>> two elements of the quit-restore parameter, simply because I don't
>> understand them well enough. I still think something should be said
>> there about how they influence quit behavior, though -- this is the
>> first place that people will look to find out how this works, and the
>> current docs are very clear about "what", but beg the question of "why".
>
> Good initiative! Thanks. I agree that more is needed, but I
> too don't understand it well enough.

There's some pretty deep grass, here. I only just came across "Side
Windows", which is pretty interesting -- that could conceivably do away
with Gnus' whole homemade window configuration setup.

If Marcin ends up patching `display-buffer-record-window' to un-set
buffer history when appropriate, I think it would also be worth
mentioning that function in the docs, as the go-to function for setting
the quit-restore parameter.

E