Re: Pressing q in View mode sometimes iconifies Emacs.

[Lute Kamstra]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     For me, the frame now iconifies.  As if I had typed C-z
>     (iconify-or-deiconify-frame).  C-h k q says that q runs
>     View-quit, though.
>
> view-mode-exit iconifies the frame in a certain case.  I think that
> is when there are multiple frames and the current frame has just one
> window.

Yes, those two seem necessary conditions.

> It is not clear to me that this is wrong.

I think it's wrong to let view-mode-exit iconify (or delete) a frame
for two reasons:

It's surprising.  I know of no other exit command that iconifies a
frame and I was quite surprised to find out that View mode (sometimes)
does.  I would expect it to call bury-buffer under the circumstances
it now calls iconify-frame.

It's inconvenient.  When I read elisp code (one window in a frame), I
often do "C-h f" on a function call to read the docstring of that
function.  This splits the frame in two windows.  If the docstring is
large, I would like to be able to do "C-x 0" to make the window of the
*Help* buffer use the entire frame and then "q" to return to the elisp
buffer.

Lute.