Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 bc55a57: * lisp/menu-bar.el (kill-this-buffer): Doc fix. (Bug#26466)

[Juri Linkov]

>> I'm sure that all these callers used kill-this-buffer because there was no
>> kill-current-buffer to simply kill the current buffer, and nothing more.
>
> Do you mean because it was too tedious to write (kill-buffer nil)?

Yes, as a command it is easier to use kill-current-buffer from M-x
or bind it to a key.

>> So I think we need to leave kill-this-buffer callers only in 
>> menu-bar/tool-bar,
>> and use kill-current-buffer everywhere else, leaving just
>> ‘(kill-buffer (current-buffer))’ in the definition of
>> kill-current-buffer in simple.el.
>
> Why (kill-buffer (current-buffer))?  Isn't (kill-buffer) enough?

(kill-buffer (current-buffer)) is more explicit.  I think there are other
parts of kill-this-buffer/kill-current-buffer that need to be simplified.