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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>,  Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 09:55:30 +0100

>> My suggestion would be to stay away from window management as much as you
>> can because it's very difficult to get it right.
>
> I agree it can be a minefield, so if anyone sees a case that's particularly difficult to handle this way, please let me know.
>
>> q followed by M-, usually brings back the original window configuration.

If and only if the selected window is the only window that changed.  The
idea of `quit-window' is to undo only changes made for this particular
window.  It should _never_ undo changes made to the rest of the window
configuration.

> Only it doesn't exactly work that way if there are more than two windows, because we open the xrefs' buffers in the "other window" in reference to the *xrefs* window, and that's not the original window.

You could try to bind "q" to a function that invokes `quit-window' for
both windows (preferably in inverse order of how they were made).

martin

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