Re: Should delete-window switch to next buffer when there is only one window?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco@gmail.com>
() Wed, 15 Jan 2014 02:19:42 +0100

   I was thinking from the user point of view.

It's good that you say this!

   In my mental model (which maybe doesn't reflect how Emacs really
   works, but nonetheless) I think of windows as being stacked, and when
   I do C-x 0 to me is like saying send the top window to the bottom of
   the stack.  In this context, it would make sense for C-x 0 to switch
   to a different buffer when there is only one window in the frame.

(defun begone! ()
  (interactive)
  (condition-case nil 
      (delete-window)
    (error (bury-buffer))))

(global-set-key "\C-x0" 'begone!)

   Ok, I will try to think harder before I make another suggestion.
   Sorry for wasting your time!

No worries.  I think from the original post we would have arrived more
easily at the above code (or something like it) if there had been:

 s/instead/in that case/

Insert appropriate Gandalf quote, here.  :-D

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