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Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref

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Message #51 received at 44611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 44611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:50:01 +0000

> There are too many commands that leave unwanted buffers.  For example,
> browsing the grep results, visiting the next file doesn't kill the previous
> visited file buffer, etc.  So better to clean up buffers afterwards,
> using e.g. project-kill-buffers.

Exactly.  This single patch goes against the grain of Emacs. Maybe
you're better off creating some "tidy-buffer-list-mode" that will try
to somehow guess which non-file and file-visiting-buffers are likely
temporary.  Maybe leverage view-mode or enhance it (I know very
little about view mode, but "view" ~= "peek").

João

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