bug#4914: completions - remove window after use?

[David Reitter]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, martin rudalics wrote:
> > Again, the desired behavior would be to remove windows (or frames)
> > that were created to display the *Completions* buffer rather than to
> > leave them visible.
> 
> Deleting the window isn't necessarily the right thing either - think of
> the case where displaying the *completions* buffer reuses an existing
> window instead of popping up a new one.  I'm currently experimenting
> with a generic solution for this problem.

That would be good.  Quite generally, those windows/frames that are created 
(e.g. via pop-to-buffer) for a specific window should be removed after we're 
done with the interaction (see also quit-window).   I've had a kludge for this 
in Aquamacs for a long time (via an advice to bury-buffer), but it's quite 
difficult to do consistently when Emacs and 3rd-part packages aren't aware that 
this is happening.

Are dedicated windows the way to go?