Re: Pressing q in View mode sometimes iconifies Emacs.

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:09:51 -0500, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It is not clear to me that this is wrong.

It's been quite clearly wrong _every_ time it's happened to me -- and
it happens often enough that I've stopped using `q' in help buffers
because I'm afraid of it...

It's also quite inconsistent with the `traditional' quit commands in
emacs modes, which almost always simply bury the buffer (or do
something equivalent, like deleting it entirely).

If this behavior is intended to address the case of quitting from a
buffer where a new frame is created to display that buffer, it seems
to make a lot more sense to record the fact that the frame was created
for that purpose, and have  view-mode check for that specific case. 
Absent such positive indication, view-mode should be conservative and
not go around iconifying stuff.

If such a change is deemed too much, my personal experience is that
view-mode currently gets it wrong far more often than it gets it
right, and so this iconifying behavior should simply be disabled until
after the release.

-Miles
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