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24.0.90; Problem with bury-buffer in minibuffer-hide-completions

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 9639 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Subject: Re: bug#9639: 24.0.90;
	Problem with bury-buffer in minibuffer-hide-completions
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:09:45 +0200

>> This would delete a stand-alone frame and not iconify it.
>
> That's a problem of quit-window.  I know that some users like this
> behavior, but making the distinction based on whether the code happened
> to use quit-window instead of bury-buffer is wrong, IMO.
>
> Both bury-buffer and quit-window should hide dedicated frames in the
> same way, either both by iconifying, or both by deleting the frame (and
> they should share the same code to do it).
>
> This shared code can provide a hook to let the user choose how the frame
> gets hidden, but the default should be to iconify since that's how it's
> worked until now (and also because I think it's a safer default, in the
> sense that iconifying throws away less information than deleting the
> frame).

With emacs 23 help frames are deleted by default.  So if I interpret you
strictly, `quit-window' should iconify a dedicated frame and delete a
non-dedicated one.  Is that correct?

Basically, it would be nice to get rid of either `bury-buffer' or
`quit-window'.  Having two functions do approximately the same thing is
neither reasonable for developers nor for users.

martin

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