Re: Window configuration UI

[Stefan Monnier]

>     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?

It's also that if the buffer disappears, the window is
automatically deleted.


        Stefan