From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6280: 24.0.50; (elisp) Dedicated Windows Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:30 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274975864 1544 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2010 15:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:57:44 +0000 (UTC) To: 6280@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 27 17:57:42 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHfSm-0006Mn-5V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:57:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OHfSl-0003h9-C8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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This info is not readily available, but it should be. The doc about dedicated windows is missing a few things. 1. There should be something in the Emacs manual about how to make windows be dedicated - esp. by default. There is nothing in the manual about it AFAICT. The closest thing is node `Special Buffer Frames'. [The node name is a misnomer, BTW: it should be `Special-Buffer Frames' or `Frames for Special Buffers'. It is the buffers that are special buffers, not "buffer frames" that are special.] 2. In the Elisp manual, the node `Dedicated Windows' would presumably cover this topic, but there is no real mention there of special-display stuff, which is the way a user will typically try to make windows in general dedicated. There is a link to the node `Choosing Window', but it is not obvious that that is the link to follow to get the relevant info. It simply says "`display-buffer' (*note Choosing Window::) never uses a dedicated window for displaying another buffer in it." Please present the topic of dedicated windows in a way that is more useful to users such as the OP in help-gnu-emacs. Provide, for instance: * a simple recipe for making all windows dedicated and * a simple recipe for making all windows for buffers in a certain mode dedicated In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-23 on G41R2F1 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'