GNU bug report logs - #11365
24.1.50; quitting gdb does not restore window configuration

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Message #85 received at 11365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#11365: 24.1.50; quitting gdb does not restore window
 configuration
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 14:51:44 +0200

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

> 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?

Nobody had in a month, so I'm closing this bug report.

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