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Re: Pressing q in View mode sometimes iconifies Emacs.
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Lute Kamstra |
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Re: Pressing q in View mode sometimes iconifies Emacs. |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:05:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> For me, the frame now iconifies. As if I had typed C-z
> (iconify-or-deiconify-frame). C-h k q says that q runs
> View-quit, though.
>
> view-mode-exit iconifies the frame in a certain case. I think that
> is when there are multiple frames and the current frame has just one
> window.
Yes, those two seem necessary conditions.
> It is not clear to me that this is wrong.
I think it's wrong to let view-mode-exit iconify (or delete) a frame
for two reasons:
It's surprising. I know of no other exit command that iconifies a
frame and I was quite surprised to find out that View mode (sometimes)
does. I would expect it to call bury-buffer under the circumstances
it now calls iconify-frame.
It's inconvenient. When I read elisp code (one window in a frame), I
often do "C-h f" on a function call to read the docstring of that
function. This splits the frame in two windows. If the docstring is
large, I would like to be able to do "C-x 0" to make the window of the
*Help* buffer use the entire frame and then "q" to return to the elisp
buffer.
Lute.