From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Ferrari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: closing man and help buffers Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:42:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376919800 28479 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 13:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Vlad Piersec , help-gnu-emacs To: Tim Visher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 15:43:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPjo-00041F-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPjn-0000c0-Rp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPjX-0000XF-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPjS-00040q-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::233]:57397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPjS-000409-4U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id t57so3730159wes.24 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:42:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ajWaAXshRTcc8NiULRbFdtP5lgGzaSICDNAK2gOwWrI=; b=tDssi7DGrUf8FHwrpTmrJXka/PPUb+l1SauizskykBRf8G0nOUmd1GDYRABCh54BcL pPIg8QxgEhNSXr9+wSkMM6TCRp9f1gY2sLYEtGdjUgrZSI+3v+Kc0QgaomUozG/tY+y9 MMyEpo3oZCKlmG+t4yoHYmP6Hj2vh6uESTgurfUDl/d968aZsPFjvjOfCUzsON9TzwsC u+aQgaM4XCViW630A9PvL+plTRsVvb7oXGqmHND0A36a3lmtur6l5n7kPxTHCW/7MeMa jCfkwE0hQpx1lz4AbVogVctLEBuNcBOic98qVhR3Gt3yjP9r90D98I5c1MfDHEx8RBTG q0jQ== X-Received: by 10.180.212.51 with SMTP id nh19mr9318125wic.14.1376919773264; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.157.194 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:42:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: q_lJAhAIIuMG7O6_kpSbaizBtf8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::233 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92986 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Tim Visher wrote: > `C-x 1` is nice in simple scenarios. > Of course, but that will keep the buffer open, just pops up the other to be visible on all the screen. > For more complex scenarios I've come to rely on winner-mode. An interesting mode I was not aware of, but I don't see how this will solve the problem, since it allows only to restore the windowing "history". I suspect that an utility as kill-utility-buffer described in the thread is the solution. Thanks, Luca