Re: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window?

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>On 24 Apr 2005, Daniel Brockman wrote,

>    I've always found it annoying that Emacs seems to have a habit of
>    leaving junk windows around whenever you invoke something ...

>Most often, I just want to bury the buffer, not delete it.  Your two
>examples of buffers you want to delete are buffers I tend to want to
>look at again, the ones created by `M-x compile' and `C-h f'
>(describe-function).

>To me, it looks that you want `C-x 4 0' (kill-buffer-and-window) to be
>documented more prominently.  What would you like specifically?

I'd like C-x 4 0 to just do its job without mithering me with "kill
buffer `foo'? (yes or no)", unless it's an actual changed buffer that's
getting killed.

>Put another way, how should we change the documentation in
>(emacs)Change Window?  Right now `C-x 4 0' is third in the sequence,
>after `C-x 0' and `C-x 1'.  That looks right to me.

>-- 
>    Robert J. Chassell                         

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany).