When jumping to a frame, prefer using open windows

[LiadOz]

Problem Statement

Jumping to buffer seems to only use the current window. If You have a split of windows [A] | B (brackets denote current window), when jumping to code that exists in the content of the file that B contains you will get [B] | B.
Instead I think its better to have A | [B]

Another considerations to make is whether or not to allow jumping between tabs, so some input is needed here.

I could implement it sometime in the near future.

Possible Solutions

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Considered Alternatives

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[mfussenegger]

This should already work if you change the switchbuf setting.

See :help dap.defaults and :help 'switchbuf'

E.g. try:

local dap = require("dap")
dap.defaults.fallback.switchbuf = 'useopen,uselast'

or

dap.defaults.fallback.switchbuf = 'usetab,uselast'

[LiadOz]

This should already work if you change the switchbuf setting.

See :help dap.defaults and :help 'switchbuf'

E.g. try:

local dap = require("dap")
dap.defaults.fallback.switchbuf = 'useopen,uselast'

or

dap.defaults.fallback.switchbuf = 'usetab,uselast'

Didn't notice this option, but for it seems that after jumping to frame in window B the focus is still on window A. Is there another setting that I should set?

[mfussenegger]

it seems that after jumping to frame in window B the focus is still on window A. Is there another setting that I should set?

There is no option but I changed the behavior with #982

[LiadOz]

Tested it on my end, works great, thanks!

[TheBlob42]

Sorry to comment on a closed issue.

Any chance we could make this "configurable"? 🤔
I build myself a small floating utility window with custom mappings to quickly step through a debug session, but now that it always jumps to affected window this has become useless 😅

[mfussenegger]

@TheBlob42 I could imagine allowing the switchbuf setting to be either a string, or a function. If it's a function it would allow full customization of the jump logic.

Could you create a new issue that explains the use-case in more detail?