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dedicated side windows lose their dedication upon reuse

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 76911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76911: dedicated side windows lose their dedication upon reuse
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:25:42 -0400

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>>> Consider the code below:
>>>
>>>      (let ((b1 (get-buffer-create "*b1*"))
>>>            (b2 (get-buffer-create "*b2*"))
>>>            (action '(display-buffer-in-side-window
>>>                      (dedicated . t)
>>>                      (side . left))))
>>>        (display-buffer b1 action)
>>>        (sit-for 1)
>>>        (display-buffer b2 action))
>>>
>>> It puts b1 in a side window, then reuses that side window for b2.
>>> When we display b2, the window loses the strong dedication it had to b1
>>> despite the display action for b2 including a request for a
>>> dedicated window.
>>>
>>> I'd expect the window to be dedicated to b2 at the end of the
>>> above snippet.
>>
>> Martin, any comments?
>
> The following emacs -Q example shows what may happen then:
>
> (let* ((b1 (get-buffer-create "*b1*"))
>        (b2 (get-buffer-create "*b2*"))
>        (b3 (get-buffer-create "*b3*"))
>        (action '(display-buffer-in-side-window
>                  (dedicated . t)
>                  (side . left)))
>        (window (display-buffer b1 action)))
>   (message "%s" (window-dedicated-p window))
>   (sit-for 3)
>   (display-buffer b2 action)
>   (message "%s" (window-dedicated-p window))
>   (sit-for 3)
>   (display-buffer b3 t))
>
> *b3* is shown in the side window although this is reserved for buffers
> displayed via 'display-buffer-in-side-window'.
>
> I checked in a fix.  Please try again.
>
> Thanks for the report, martin

Thanks for the fix. The original bug is gone. I've noticed a few times
buffers being in side windows I didn't intend to have, but I haven't
been able to find a repro.  Probably an unrelated bug.  We should
probably visually style side windows differently by default.

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