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Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:20:37 +0200 |
> From: Oleh Krehel <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:58:19 +0100
>
> 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.
So maybe we should have a way to override the window's dedicated
status, with a special command or an argument to a command or a
variable.
> 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.
You need to see the GDB-MI design as a whole. You are entitled to
your opinions about its design, but it is consistent, and many users
like it, probably because they come from other IDEs (where all windows
are dedicated).
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, (continued)
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Stefan Monnier, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/10
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/10
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- RE: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Drew Adams, 2015/02/09
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Barry OReilly, 2015/02/09
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Glenn Brown, 2015/02/24