Re: dired-mark-pop-up leaves annoying buffers lying around

[Chong Yidong]

Antoine Levitt <address@hidden> writes:

> Any reason not to do the following?
>
> === modified file 'lisp/dired.el'
> --- lisp/dired.el     2011-02-02 16:21:52 +0000
> +++ lisp/dired.el     2011-02-10 13:14:32 +0000
> @@ -2840,7 +2840,8 @@
>                             '(mouse-face nil help-echo nil)))
>      (save-window-excursion
>        (dired-pop-to-buffer bufname)
> -      (apply function args))))
> +      (apply function args)
> +      (kill-buffer bufname))))
>
>  (defun dired-format-columns-of-files (files)
>    (let ((beg (point)))

Most callers of dired-mark-pop-up use the default " *Marked Files*"
buffer (and AFAICT the others use a fixed name instead of creating
unique buffers).  The buffer name has a space in front of its name, so
it doesn't show up in the buffer list.  Any reason why it needs to be
killed?