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24.3.50; `quit-restore-window' with KILL=t replaces special-display buffer in its dedicated window

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 16768 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16768: 24.3.50; `quit-restore-window' with KILL=t replaces special-display buffer in its dedicated window
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:44:31 -0800 (PST)

This part of the `quit-restore-window' causes a special-display buffer,
whose window is dedicated to it, to be replaced in that window by
another buffer:

(t
 ;; Show some other buffer in WINDOW and reset the quit-restore
 ;; parameter.
 (set-window-parameter window 'quit-restore nil)
 ;; Make sure that WINDOW is no more dedicated.
 (set-window-dedicated-p window nil)
 (switch-to-prev-buffer window bury-or-kill))

If BURY-OR-KILL is `kill' then the window/frame should simply be
deleted.  A window dedicated to a particular buffer should not be reused
for another buffer.

Consider, for example, a `special-display-frame-alist' that specifies
certain frame attributes - e.g., a particular background color.  You do
not want to reuse such a frame for another buffer, especially for a non
special-display buffer.  The frame should be deleted when its buffer
is killed.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-02-11 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116410 lekktu <at> gmail.com-20140211204823-l9l2s6tktfitq266
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'

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