bug#9639: 24.0.90; Problem with bury-buffer in minibuffer-hide-completions

[martin rudalics]

>> This would delete a stand-alone frame and not iconify it.
>
> That's a problem of quit-window.  I know that some users like this
> behavior, but making the distinction based on whether the code happened
> to use quit-window instead of bury-buffer is wrong, IMO.
>
> Both bury-buffer and quit-window should hide dedicated frames in the
> same way, either both by iconifying, or both by deleting the frame (and
> they should share the same code to do it).
>
> This shared code can provide a hook to let the user choose how the frame
> gets hidden, but the default should be to iconify since that's how it's
> worked until now (and also because I think it's a safer default, in the
> sense that iconifying throws away less information than deleting the
> frame).

With emacs 23 help frames are deleted by default.  So if I interpret you
strictly, `quit-window' should iconify a dedicated frame and delete a
non-dedicated one.  Is that correct?

Basically, it would be nice to get rid of either `bury-buffer' or
`quit-window'.  Having two functions do approximately the same thing is
neither reasonable for developers nor for users.

martin