Re: ibuffer kills split window

[John Paul Wallington]

> I prefer to have ibuffer use another window.  If I have a single
> buffer visible and call C-x C-b (which is bound to 'ibuffer), a new
> buffer is displayed and when I press q it goes away.  This is fine.
> 
> However if I'm working on 2 buffers (split), and I do C-x C-b,
> ibuffer takes over one of the buffers (whichever one did not have
> focus at time of call).  And when I press q, it buries the buffer and
> I lose the window... I have to resplit.

I agree that's not good.  I'll try to solve the problem this week, but
don't have the time now.  Patches welcome!
 
> I much prefer the way bs-show did it by popping up a completely new
> buffer and when 'q' is pressed things are restored exactly as they
> were (even if I have 3 or 4 split windows).
> 
> I rely on ibuffer filtering though, so I'm hoping there's a way to get
> the old bs-show behavior.  If this is broken then is there a
> workaround?  If it's by design, then is it possible to get the old
> bs-show behavior through hooking and if so any ideas how I might do
> that?

How about saying:
(define-key ibuffer-mode-map "q" 'quit-window)
?