bug#25209: 25.1; can't delete *Shell Command Output*

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 15 2016, Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> wrote:

> On a long-running multi-tty Emacs, at one point the *Shell Command
> Output* buffer refuses to go away.
>
> If I try to kill it, nothing happens, whether the current buffer is that
> one or any other one.  The contents of the *Shell Command Output* buffer
> are always visible in the minibuffer.  So, to make it unobtrusive, I
> need to issue an
>  M-! echo -n RET
> every time the *Shell Command Output* buffer is dirtied.

Did you perhaps quit while the output of a shell-command was being
displayed, because it took too long?  In that situation Emacs can end up
in a state where (minibuffer-window) points to the *Shell Command
Output* buffer, and kill-buffer will refuse to kill the buffer.

You can reset the minibuffer window with

(set-window-buffer (minibuffer-window) (get-buffer " *Minibuf-0*"))

Andreas.

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