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Re: completion-list-mode-map


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: completion-list-mode-map
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:53:21 +0200
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)

>> emacs -Q
>> C-h k k    => help window pops up
>> C-x o
>> q          => help window deleted
>
> OK, that's a bug/misfeature of quit-window which we should fix.
> I.e. not an impediment to using quit-window.

When the help window was reused, q restores its old buffer and its
positions wrt the window.  `quit-window' can't do that because it
doesn't know anything about the window's history.

This and some other quirks are avoided by `quit-restore-window'.

martin



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