From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dedicated frames - not quite special-display Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:54:20 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D88CBDC.5050003@ihs.com> References: <5lsn07nvds.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032376145 20802 127.0.0.1 (18 Sep 2002 19:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17rkC8-0005PO-00 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:09:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rkBV-0003sA-00; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:08:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1032375254 4257861 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105044 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1598 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1598 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>I'm looking for something like the special-display function, but with >>>a twist. I would like to dedicate a frame to a *list* of buffers >>>(preferably defined with a regexp), such that the frame can only >>>display those buffers. An example would be a gnus-only frame, where >>>it could display all gnus buffers within it (and bbdb and ispell), but >>>not be able to switch to a java file. >>> >>>Does such a creature exist? Thanks! Does dframe.el provide the functionality you want? It's distributed with speedbar at http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml >>What a great idea! I wonder if you could develop a framework based on >>advising switch-to-buffer? Before jumping in to this, I'd wait to see >>if the gurus know of an easier way. >> > > I'd stay away from switch-to-buffer, personally. > Instead, I'd start with display-buffer-function. And set a user-defined frame parameter to the list of buffers the frame may display? -- Kevin Rodgers