Re: Quit and Close Emacs Special Windows

[Yuan Fu]

> On Jun 30, 2020, at 9:31 PM, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stefan:
> 
> As "this behavior" I mean that pressing q effectively closes the buffer 
> instead of keeping it around in the buffer list. When working in big projects 
> with too many files usually there are too many *-...-* buffers (magit, 
> compile, man, logs...). And the user needs to keep closing them constantly 
> (with C-u q or explicitly)
> This is not only annoying some times (for example for rotating buffers with 
> C-x right) but also is somehow unnatural for term users who are used to call 
> ex. man from the terminal and quit quickly to continue.

For that you might want to consider M-x clean-buffer-list.

Yuan