Re: [Bug-zile] zile 2.3.9 crashes when killing last buffer

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

Thanks to your detailed bug report, I was able to confirm that this is 
fixed in zile 2.3.14:

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$ rpm -qi zile
Name        : zile                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.3.14                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.fc13                        Build Date: Thu 03 Dec 2009 
09:14:57 PM CST
Install Date: Thu 20 May 2010 07:45:12 PM CDT      Build Host: 
x86-7.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Editors          Source RPM: 
zile-2.3.14-1.fc13.src.rpm
Size        : 671783                           License: GPLv3+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Fri 05 Feb 2010 02:23:04 AM CST, Key ID 
7edc6ad6e8e40fde
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
Summary     : Zile Is Lossy Emacs
Description :
Zile is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting
real-time open-source display editor. Zile was written to be as
similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home.
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When I do what you describe I stay in the scratch buffer.  Perhaps you 
can upgrade to Fedora 13 GNU/Linux or later where you're more likely to 
get a more recent zile.