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From: sbaugh@catern.com
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	64619@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64619: [PATCH] Add toggle-window-dedicated command
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:41:36 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttu5hy27.fsf@catern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <580a66c1-7496-7f05-e58e-5e9361094aee@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:53:47 +0200")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>> * lisp/window.el (toggle-window-dedicated): Add.
>>> (window-prefix-map): Add C-x w d binding.
>>
>> Adding Martin.  Martin, any comments?
>
> It should hardly harm anyone.  But what would be a typical scenario for
> using it?

When a window is not dedicated and one wants to make it dedicated, to
affect display-buffer.

> C-x b has 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window', C-x <left> and
> friends probably should do the same.  Usually a window is marked as
> dedicated to avoid that 'display-buffer' uses it.

Exactly.

> In which case it would likely be better to not mark the window as
> dedicated in the first place - e.g. via a (dedicated . nil) entry in
> `display-buffer-alist'.

Yes, this is about making windows dedicated, not making them not
dedicated.  I implemented it as a toggle only because that seems nicer
to a user who might otherwise make a window dedicated on accident and
not know how to undo it.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-15 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-14 15:38 bug#64619: [PATCH] Add toggle-window-dedicated command Spencer Baugh
2023-07-14 19:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-14 21:17   ` Drew Adams
2023-07-14 23:58     ` sbaugh
2023-07-15 21:30       ` Drew Adams
2023-07-18 15:35   ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-18 17:56     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-15  5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-15  7:53   ` martin rudalics
2023-07-15 17:41     ` sbaugh [this message]
2023-07-15 18:16       ` martin rudalics
2023-07-18 15:34 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-19 13:34   ` sbaugh
2023-08-19 16:13     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 16:20       ` sbaugh
2023-08-19 16:21         ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 20:02           ` sbaugh
2023-08-20  5:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-21 13:00               ` sbaugh
2023-08-21 13:20                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-21 14:02                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-21 19:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-21 19:20                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-13  1:33                   ` sbaugh
2023-10-25 13:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-19 16:43     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-19 20:06       ` sbaugh
2023-08-19 20:37         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-19 21:47           ` sbaugh
2023-08-19 22:36             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20  6:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20  8:02                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20  8:30                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20  8:41                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20  8:54                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20  9:56                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20 10:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20 10:25                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-20 14:09                               ` sbaugh
2023-08-20 15:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20 21:56                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-08-21 11:23                                   ` sbaugh
2023-08-21  8:27           ` Augusto Stoffel

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