Re: Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor)

[Richard Stallman]

    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?