From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:24:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqvbj18k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tzew3d1c.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:55:59 +0200")
> it is annoyingly impossible to keep working with two views of the same
> buffer. For example, say that I have a file text.tex open in two frames
> since I want to work on two different locations of it via
> comparison/cut&paste/whatever.
> Now I type M-x gnus RET, read news and quit again. As a consequence, a
> totally unrelated buffer pops up. And of course, when I get back the
> buffer again (which is not the default offered), the window point is
> lost and replaced by that of the other frame that is still on.
Yes, it's problematic. Emacs's buffer/window management presumes you
most likely want to display a buffer in only 1 window at a time.
As someone else mentioned you can kind of work around this via
clone-indirect-buffer.
> That is quite a nuisance. Are there some ways to make a two-view setup
> less ephemeral?
You might want to try and play with window-configs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-12 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 10:55 Working with one buffer in two frames/windows David Kastrup
2008-07-11 11:28 ` David Hansen
2008-07-12 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-07-12 8:21 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 10:40 ` martin rudalics
2008-07-12 11:02 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 12:22 ` martin rudalics
2008-07-12 20:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-12 20:41 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 22:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-12 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-13 13:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-14 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-22 5:45 ` Vincent Belaïche
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