How to change the purpose of the compilation buffer to become non-popup?

[taquangtrung]

Hi,

Is it possible to change the purpose of the compilation buffer *compilation* to become non-popup?

I'm using two Emacs frames in two monitors, and I want to fix the compilation buffer into one monitor. However, whenever I press C-g, the buffer *compilation* disappears, since it is assigned to popb purpose.

I tried to set that buffer or its window to be dedicated, but it doesn't work.

I also remove the compilation-mode from purpose-x-popwin-major-modes, and call purpose-x-popwin-update-conf to update the configuration, but this doesn't work either. Here is the function that I wrote to enable/disable the compilation buffer from being set as popb.

Could you advise me what is wrong? Or how can I properly enable/disable that feature?

(Note that I already disable the old popwin mode and use only spacemacs-purpose-popwin)

(defun toggle-popup-compilation ()
  (interactive)
  (cond ((memq 'compilation-mode purpose-x-popwin-major-modes)
         (setq purpose-x-popwin-major-modes
               (remove 'compilation-mode purpose-x-popwin-major-modes))
         (purpose-x-popwin-update-conf))
        (t
         (add-to-list 'purpose-x-popwin-major-modes 'compilation-mode)
         (purpose-x-popwin-update-conf))))

Thank you very much!

[gjhenrique]

Hi,

I have the following functions to open certain buffers in another frame assigned to its purpose

(defun zezin-add-reusable-buffers (buffer-regex)
  (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
           `(,buffer-regex
         nil
         (reusable-frames . t))))

(zezin-add-reusable-buffers "\\*Go Test\\*")
(zezin-add-reusable-buffers "\\**compilation\\*")
(zezin-add-reusable-buffers "\\magit*")