Subject: bug#49139: Cannot delete *help* buffer

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:04:09 +0200 (CEST)

What are the buffers to be hidden ? Could emacs use a different icon than "Red Cross"

to show that it hides the buffer instead of killing it.  Can you include information

on how to actually kill it in the icon tooltip "Preceed by C-u to kill buffer".

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: bug#49139: Cannot delete *help* buffer
Date: 21/06/2021 15:19:01 Europe/Paris
Cc: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>;
   [email-masked]

[email-masked] writes:

> I use the help buffer to read documentation or to write some information 
> temporarily. Do we really need such complication (C-u) to kill the buffer
> when just clicking the icon is a standard way to kill it ?.

The standard for these buffers in Emacs is to bury them, not killing
them. This has been somewhat inconsistently applied in the past and the
`q' (and related commands) have sometimes killed the buffers instead,
but we're moving more to burying.

Closing.

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