From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Window annoyances (was Some annoying behaviours) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:21:54 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <517586d2-c7ea-4490-8802-f52bde9f43c6@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203846048 22722 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 09:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 10:41:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTDM3-0003is-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTDLX-0005U3-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.33.71 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1203844915 17782 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2008 09:21:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.33.71; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156443 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51814 Archived-At: On Feb 21, 1:31 pm, "Francis Moreau" wrote: > Hello list, > > Emacs is cool but I'd still like to fix some annoying details to make it > perfect. > > The first one is about the 'completion' window which doesn't close > automatically once it's no more needed. I know I can switch to this > window and close it but it would be really nice to make this auto. > > The second one is about new windows that are automatically open > by Emacs, for example when I start a compilation or GDB. Emacs > choose an old widow (almost randomly) and replace this one with > the new one. But it always choose the wrong window to replace. > Is it possible to make a 'sticky' window that is a window that > can't be chosen by Emacs to be switched by a new one ? > > Thanks ! > -- > Francis I am also recently faced with with some window annoyances which are -- I think -- more annoying than the above because I cant seem to work around them at all. When I want to compare to buffers using ediff-buffers, I often want the buffers side-by-side (C-x 3) rather than the default one-above- other (C-x 2). Even if I take the trouble to arrange the windows as I want and then invoke ediff-buffers emacs is adamant enough to remake the windows up-down, quite ignoring my configuration!