Subject: bug#4914: completions - remove window after use?

From: David Reitter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:56:47 -0500

On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, martin rudalics wrote:
> > Again, the desired behavior would be to remove windows (or frames)
> > that were created to display the *Completions* buffer rather than to
> > leave them visible.
> 
> Deleting the window isn't necessarily the right thing either - think of
> the case where displaying the *completions* buffer reuses an existing
> window instead of popping up a new one.  I'm currently experimenting
> with a generic solution for this problem.

That would be good.  Quite generally, those windows/frames that are created (e.g. via pop-to-buffer) for a specific window should be removed after we're done with the interaction (see also quit-window).   I've had a kludge for this in Aquamacs for a long time (via an advice to bury-buffer), but it's quite difficult to do consistently when Emacs and 3rd-part packages aren't aware that this is happening.

Are dedicated windows the way to go?