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  • :). Thanks for the C-x 5 b tip. I guess the question now is it possible to still use C-x b but it redirects to C-x 5 b for dedicated windows. I will look more into special-display-regexps (is a neat approach) and display-buffer-alist. My emacs fu is not up to par yet but hope to be their soon. Commented Dec 30, 2017 at 2:25
  • See #2 above. If you do that then C-x b automatically does what you are asking. Commented Dec 30, 2017 at 17:55
  • I know what I have to do but I don't how to achieve that in the code base above. Specifically, the elisp directive should be (setq special-display-buffer-names (current-buffer)) where current-buffer is obtained as shown in the above snippet. I need to figure how to chain this directive with the above snippet. Commented Dec 30, 2017 at 22:52
  • No. current-buffer returns a buffer, not a buffer name (a string). If you don't know the names of the buffers that you want to make special-display and you don't know even a pattern (regexp) that all of their names will match, then you cannot use the two options I mentioned. You'll perhaps have to wrestle with using display-buffer-alist. And what I said was not intended as something to do to your toggle-* code. It was a response to your question about to make a given buffer have a dedicated window and then switch to it in its own frame. Commented Dec 31, 2017 at 0:12