Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
> Cc: thibaut.verron@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:58:19 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> If you have 9 minutes and a way to view Youtube videos, you can see my
> >> demo of a neat approach to manipulating windows (especially the window
> >> swap). This approach of course won't work with non-soft dedicated
> >> windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZliI1BKzI.
> >
> > That's cute, but is this related to GDB-MI and the issue being
> > discussed here?  If so, how?
> 
> There's a function that swaps the current window with the selected one.
> It fails miserably with dedicated windows, although works with
> soft-dedicated.

So maybe we should have a way to override the window's dedicated
status, with a special command or an argument to a command or a
variable.

> The point is that the user may know better how to manipulate the window
> layout. Random dedicated windows that behave differently from normal windows,
> without a visual indication that they are different, aren't a good design.

You need to see the GDB-MI design as a whole.  You are entitled to
your opinions about its design, but it is consistent, and many users
like it, probably because they come from other IDEs (where all windows
are dedicated).