Why does :q delete the window

Sanel Zukan sanelz at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 10:04:17 CEST 2012


AFAIK this is how vim behaves. Also, the buffer is not deleted, only window
where that buffer is shown (the same as in vim).

Regards,
Sanel

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I usualy have a 2x2 window configuration for my Emacs frame.
> My evil-version is 0.1 and my emacs is
> GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
>  of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
>
> Anybody has an idea why :q or :wq not only gets rid of the buffer, but
> also of the window?
>
> Editing a file in window 2 with following configuration
>
> -1- -2-
> -3- -4-
>
> and doing :q in -2- I end up with configuration
>
> ---1---
> -3- -4-
>
> This is rather annoying.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Guido
>
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