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: using special-display-regexps Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:34:30 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40D30B86.9060503@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537145 22339 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:25:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfO8b-0005mS-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOAG-0002Zt-W7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:21:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de JkTXRiy1hoMx2JE7ep6VLwr1BBzxxdBnzLPQo+tBTMwETKXRY= 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: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123828 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19218 Mathias Dahl wrote: > Michael Slass writes: >>>I'm trying to teach emacs to treat some buffers in a special way using >>>this code that is supposed to work: >>> >>>(setq special-display-regexps >>> '(("jabber-chat" >>> ((top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200))))) >>> >>>In the documentation string thew following can be seen: >>> >>> *List of regexps saying which buffers should have their own special >>> frames. If a buffer name matches one of these regexps, it gets its >>> own frame. Displaying a buffer whose name is in this list makes a >>> special frame for it using `special-display-function'. >>> >>> An element of the list can be a list instead of just a string. >>> There are two ways to use a list as an element: >>> (REGEXP FRAME-PARAMETERS...) (REGEXP FUNCTION OTHER-ARGS...) >>> In the first case, FRAME-PARAMETERS are used to create the frame. >>> >>>It works only half way, emacs opens up matching buffers in a new >>>frame, but the supplied frame parameters is not applied. >> >>The frame parameters should each be elements at the same level as >>"jabber-chat", rather than in their own enclosing list, as you've got it. >>Also, it's better to use (add-to-list ...) rather than setq in this >>context, because setq will clobber anything that's already there. >> >>Put those together, and I think you get something like this: >> >>(add-to-list 'special-display-regexps >> '("jabber-chat" (top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200))) >> > > Aaaaaah! Yes, that did the trick! Is this just a problem with me > or could the documentation be more clear on this subject? I have > fiddles with frame parameters from time to time and then I had > always needed to enclose them in their own list. This is the > reason I thought I had to do the same now. Yes, I think the correct way to denote that data structure would be: (REGEXP . FRAME-PARAMETERS) ; FRAME-PARAMETERS is an association list ; of (PARAMETER . VALUE) conses or (REGEXP (PARAMETER . VALUE) ...) -- Kevin Rodgers