RE: patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature)

[klaus.berndl]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> How do you feel about the current interface:
>> 
>> delete-other-windows t, inhibits delete-other-windows
>> 
>> other-window numeric arg, the arg will group windows together, when
>> other-window is performed, only windows in the same group are
>> considered. I plan to do this by adding an argument to next_window.
>> 
>> The parameters might obvioulsy be renamed.
>> 
> 
> The first definitely needs renaming. Its value is used to determine
> the behaviour of the current window (not other windows), and its
> value is used in the inverse way that the name suggests. Perhaps
> inhibit-deletion would be better. The downside is that the rename
> loses the association with the function delete-other-windows, but is
> that the only function that needs to look at this property anyway?

no, definitly delete-window too - in case of ECB it must be ensured
that a user can not delete one of the special windows...
Currently the advice of delete-window prevents from this....
Then split-window-* because such special windows must also not
splitted...