Re: Controlling which windows can be selected by display-buffer-pop-up-window

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > Is there any chance a more flexible mechanism for controlling which window
 > is chosen to be split when a new buffer is about to displayed could make it
 > into Emacs? I have been trying to implement a way to keep a toggleable
 > terminal or compilation window at the bottom of an Emacs frame, that is
 > only a few lines high and is never split or deleted unless the users
 > requests it - I think this is a perfectly reasonable feature many people
 > would like, and one present in many environments those days. Currently, to
 > the extent I managed to learn, implementing a window that consistently
 > keeps a fixed position and size and is never split, is possible only in two
 > ways, one is a really dirty hack, and the second one requires
 > reimplementing a lot of the mechanisms in window.el.

To avoid that a window is split, fix its buffer's height (see the
variable `window-size-fixed').

To show a window continuously at the bottom of a frame, use the function
`display-buffer-in-side-window' with a 'bottom argument.

No dirty hacks needed ;-)

martin