bug#81406: 31.0.90; rotate-windows loses window balance when window-combination-resize is t

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:12:05 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
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> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 10:13:20 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
>  [email protected]
> 
>  > So to meet your concerns we would always have to signal an error when
>  > 'rotate-windows' encounters a dedicated window or add an option to
>  > handle that case.  Keeping dedicated windows at their original position
>  > and rotating the rest is not a feasible option at the moment IMHO.
> 
> One more issue: Currently 'rotate-windows' and 'rotate-windows-back' are
> the only functions in window-x.el to treat dedicated windows specially.
> All others like 'window-layout-rotate-clockwise' or
> 'window-layout-transpose' don't care about dedicated windows so these
> usually will "end up with a different size and position".

All those functions should handle dedicated windows the same, IMO.