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30.0.50; kill-this-buffer must be bound to an event with parameters

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 71510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mattias <mattias <at> kojin.tech>
Subject: bug#71510: 30.0.50; kill-this-buffer must be bound to an event with parameters
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:14:17 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 71510 notabug
> thanks
>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:06:36 +0200
>> From: Mattias <mattias <at> kojin.tech>
>> 
>> 
>> kill-this-buffer is not working as before anymore.
>> 
>> Old behaviour:
>> 
>> e -Q
>> C-x 3
>> M-x kill-this-buffer
>> 
>> would kill the current buffer and display only one frame
>> 
>> e -Q
>> C-x 3
>> M-x kill-this-buffer
>> 
>> Will raise an error:
>> 
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "kill-this-buffer must be bound to 
>> an event with parameters")
>> command-execute(kill-this-buffer record)
>> execute-extended-command(nil "kill-this-buffer" "kill-th")
>> funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "kill-this-buffer" 
>> "kill-th")
>> command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>
> This is the intended behavior, not a bug: this command must be invoked
> from a mouse event.

Mattias, if it helps, such errors frequently indicate that the command
is being misapplied in contexts where `kill-current-buffer' is the
appropriate command.

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