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

[Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

This would be useful, since other IDEs (at least QT Creator, probably
Eclipse) certainly have more options for dealing with dedicated windows.
For instance, QT Creator has a drop-down-style switch-buffer attached to
each dedicated window. You can select appropriate buffers for that
window.

Same this could/should work for `gdb-many-windows': for instance, I
could swap *locals* and *output* because *output* window is larger and I
care more about *locals*.