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Dan Debertin <airboss@nodewarrior.org> writes:

> Pressing RET or C-c C-c in a *grep* or *compile* window appears to
> call find-file-other-window, which is fine, except it routinely
> opens the file in other windows I'm using, like *shell*. Is there an
> exclusion-list for this function that will cause it to skip buffers
> with certain names?

You can dedicate a window to a buffer, M-x apropos RET dedicat RET.
It's not a command, I think, so you have to invoke some Lisp.

Does this help?
-- 
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