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24.0.50; (elisp) Dedicated Windows

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'Stefan Monnier' <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 6280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6280: 24.0.50; (elisp) Dedicated Windows
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:20:00 +0200

> My value of `special-display-regexps' is ("[ ]?[*][^*]+[*]"), so buffers named
> `*...*' are special.

In your original report you asked for

> * a simple recipe for making all windows dedicated and
>
> * a simple recipe for making all windows for buffers in a certain mode
> dedicated

I tried to answer these questions.

>> I earlier mentioned how you can do what the OP wants.  Write
>> a function that you _globally_ add to
>> `window-configuration-change-hook'.  That function would have to
>> scan `window-list', check for each window whether
>> its buffer is in a mode that shall have dedicated windows,
>> and, if that is the case, call `set-window-dedicated-p' for that
>> window with some non-nil, non-t flag.  If someone can come up
>> with a simpler solution I'll be all ears.
>
> Sigh.

Sorry.

martin

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