bug#20848: 24.5; window-state-put fails when strongly dedicated windows are involved

[martin rudalics]

> Is this a bug? If not, is there a way of working around this in a sane
> fashion (like, not removing the dedication status of the window)?

Do you mean we should apply the following patch?

martin


--- a/lisp/window.el
+++ b/lisp/window.el
@@ -5375,6 +5375,8 @@ windows can get as small as `window-safe-min-height' and
                        root))))
       (delete-other-windows-internal window root)))

+  (set-window-dedicated-p window nil)
+
   (let* ((frame (window-frame window))
         (head (car state))
         ;; We check here (1) whether the total sizes of root window of