Re: Please review: Small fix for window.c

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> A softly dedicated window is a window that's been created specifically to
> display a particular buffer, but whose allegiance to this buffer may not
> be eternal.  More specifically if the user decides to do switch-to-buffer,
> no error will be signalled and instead the dedication flag will simply be
> set to nil.  This way, when the buffer gets deleted the window also gets
> deleted but only if the user hasn't used that window for some
> other purpose in the mean time.
>
> With this scheme, pop-to-buffer would typically set the dedicated flag of
> windows it creates to `soft', so many/most windows start out as being
> softly dedicated.
>
> I hope I'll get enough time and motivation at some point to try and convince
> Emacs's maintainers that this is a good idea and should be installed.

I think it sounds like an excellent idea!

> With soft-dedication, the use of set-window-configuration to try and undo
> what display-buffer has done is replaced by a call to kill-buffer or
> bury-buffer.

Nice!


I was thinking about another kind of "hard" dedication -- where a window
cannot be deleted unless you kill the associated buffer.  It seems useful
for stuff like ECB which don't want _anything_ to mess with its windows.

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk