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
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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.