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23.1; give users a choice for quitting backtrace buffer

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen' <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 4550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#4550: 23.1; give users a choice for quitting backtrace buffer
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:00:36 +0200

> Yeah, but AIUI one of the points of the recent buffer display reform is
> to provide a unified customization interface, so I think it would be a
> shame to still leave cases which the user has to handle outside of it
> (which in this case would be particularly ugly, as `quit-window' doesn't
> seem to provide any means to hook into what it does other than the
> prefix argument).

The "buffer display reform" doesn't cover the case where a window is
obtained "manually", for example, by C-x 2.  `quit-restore-window' does
hanlde that and `quit-window' too, both in their own ways.

> Perhaps `quit-window' could check if a relevant specification exists,
> and default to the current behaviour if none is found?

Perhaps.  `bury-buffer' is another function that could do that.  I once
thought of making `quit-restore-window' the only function to "quit" a
window but meanwhile I had to recognize that people have developed very
strict conceptions about how a window shall be quit.

martin

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