Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el

[Oleh Krehel]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> If you have 9 minutes and a way to view Youtube videos, you can see my
>> demo of a neat approach to manipulating windows (especially the window
>> swap). This approach of course won't work with non-soft dedicated
>> windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZliI1BKzI.
>
> That's cute, but is this related to GDB-MI and the issue being
> discussed here?  If so, how?

There's a function that swaps the current window with the selected one.
It fails miserably with dedicated windows, although works with
soft-dedicated.

The point is that the user may know better how to manipulate the window
layout. Random dedicated windows that behave differently from normal windows,
without a visual indication that they are different, aren't a good design.