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calc windows should be marked as dedicated

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: boruch_baum <at> gmx.com
Cc: 44108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44108: Patch for this bug
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:17:15 +0200

Ping!  Could someone please chime in?
If no comments are heard, I will push this change conditioned on a new
defcustom, in one week's time.

> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:54:16 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 44108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 03:45:09 -0400
> > From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/calc.el b/calc.el
> > index 4bebd5f..90dcce6 100644
> > --- a/calc.el
> > +++ b/calc.el
> > @@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ commands given here will actually operate on the *Calculator* stack."
> >        (and (windowp full-display)
> >             (window-point full-display)
> >             (select-window full-display))
> > +      (set-window-dedicated-p nil t)
> >        (calc-check-defines)
> >        (when (and calc-said-hello interactive)
> >          (sit-for 2)
> > @@ -2136,7 +2137,8 @@ the United States."
> >                (if calc-trail-window-hook
> >                    (run-hooks 'calc-trail-window-hook)
> >                  (let ((w (split-window nil (/ (* (window-width) 2) 3) t)))
> > -                  (set-window-buffer w calc-trail-buffer)))
> > +                  (set-window-buffer w calc-trail-buffer)
> > +                  (set-window-dedicated-p w t)))
> >                (calc-wrapper
> >                 (setq overlay-arrow-string calc-trail-overlay
> >                       overlay-arrow-position calc-trail-pointer)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Would people who routinely use Calc please chime in and comment on
> this?  Could this have some adverse consequences in some use cases?
> Should we have a user option for controlling this behavior?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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