From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configuration UI Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873aqia0eh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <18416.20317.458729.421431@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207018945 31598 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 03:02:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 05:02:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JgWlZ-0008Hn-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:02:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWkx-0006AN-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWk0-0005i3-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWjy-0005he-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWjy-0005hX-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgWjv-0001GF-0F; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:47 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq0EAA5C8UdMCrUE/2dsb2JhbACBWqhy X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,585,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="17262616" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2008 23:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.181.4]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id HHB07846; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A81497FDF; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94085 Archived-At: > Maybe some concept of a window being dedicated to the set of > buffers that have tabs for it, i.e., you could switch between tabs > but other buffers couldn't switch into it, would be some kind of > useful subframe entity. > That sounds like a good idea to me. It could be implemented in tabbar.el; > if you click on a tab belonging to a dedicated window, it could un-dedicate > the window, switch buffers in it, then re-dedicate it. > However, perhaps set-window-buffer should operate normally on > dedicated windows. The idea of dedicated windows is that they > should not get reused by ...-other-window functions. If you explicitly > change the buffer in a dedicated window, why shouldn't that work? It's also that if the buffer disappears, the window is automatically deleted. Stefan