Re: quit-window

[Christoph Scholtes]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> W'de have to handle this test
>
>   (if Info-standalone
>       (save-buffers-kill-emacs)
>     (quit-window)))
>
> somehow without creating surprises for people using the standalone
> version.

What surprises are you thinking of?

> You might also try patching (some of) them right away so we know whether
> there are any pitfalls ;-)

Yes, for short term the most annoying instancse can be fixed without a hook.

> The problem is that the more hooks we have in one call, the more the
> order in which these hooks are executed does matter.  For example, I
> believe that when I run `kill-buffer', `kill-buffer-hook' is called
> before `window-configuration-change-hook'.  When I run `quit-window'
> with the first argument t, the order seems
> `window-configuration-change-hook', `kill-buffer-hook', and possibly
> another `window-configuration-change-hook' if the buffer was displayed
> in a second window.  This is already very confusing for me in current
> Emacs.

That does seem confusing. I wonder why there are differences.