From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:42:32 +0100 Message-ID: <54D8FF98.2000008@gmx.at> References: <87h9uynckc.fsf@gmail.com> <83iofedfkz.fsf@gnu.org> <877fvun97j.fsf@gmail.com> <83fvaid8sa.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423507863 17493 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2015 18:51:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Thibaut Verron Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 19:51:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKtQE-0000vs-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:51:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKtQE-0000I8-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKtIF-00039s-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKtIB-0000yz-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:59783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKtIB-0000v9-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [93.82.72.172] ([93.82.72.172]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MDm4o-1YOfqc215K-00H6c3; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:42:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:3ymbiOAcYLeXiolVKG/6WSlzaXcTYS8qSQfPz5ZwtRYLLcQmiwB xctC/shgzZmlyyxu5ctMkm8mid7t0f1F2KM1RhP+MueADsxHioNGE2OPnAEGa5sCTCinyMl I826aeCmVqoKxuIze5R4h7nBZ2WXoX51pZwqAkLrdJW8PLIA6AmRHIvA9OYNj1hSN40rBDK hpk1ecb3425TKyKn3XOQA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182718 Archived-At: > I know Martin doesn't like this concept, but in any case, if we could > try and arrange for gdb-mi to mark its windows as softly dedicated, > I think it would solve your use case. On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:22:11 +0200 I tried to answer you as follows: > > I know you think dedicated windows suck and that I like them so much > > that "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail", but I think > > this is really a good case to mark the window dedicated. I'm not sure > > whether set-window-configuration would do the right thing currently > > (kill the window if the buffer died), but if it doesn't, it'd be > > a clear bug that needs fixing. > > I don't think that dedicated windows suck and even went so far as to > give them an entire section in the Elisp manual ;-) > > On the average, 50% of my windows are dedicated and they suit my needs > well. So I think that hardly anyone out there uses dedicated windows > more than me. And if you look at `window-preserve-size' you may observe that it's a "soft" variant of fixed-size windows. So I even adopted your concept in a different context ;-) martin