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24.1.50; quitting gdb does not restore window configuration

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sds <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11365: 24.1.50; quitting gdb does not restore window configuration
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:05:47 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Anyway, I can indeed reproduce the problem -- after saying "quit" in the
> main gdb buffer, all the gdb buffers go away, but I'm left with a
> two-window conf (and not the one-window conf I started out with).

But I'm not sure whether we should do anything about this.  The user may
have altered many things in the window conf between saying `M-x gdb'
(which pops up all those windows) and saying "quit" (which removes all
the popped-up windows).

Restoring a previous window configuration (which may, after all, include
killed buffers and other oddities) after exiting something like a gdb
session doesn't seem like something everybody'd want.  But we could
offer it behind a user option, I guess.

Anybody got an opinion?

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