From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Stewart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help window destroys window layout Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:29:59 +0800 Message-ID: <87ab90k1wo.fsf@debian.domain> References: <87fxis8u8m.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233869767 26296 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2009 21:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:36:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 22:37:21 2009 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 1LVBuO-0000Td-2g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:37:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBt3-0002qK-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBnl-0001Em-Vc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBni-0001D9-Hz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52925 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBni-0001D2-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49708 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVBnh-0006Mz-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBng-00084D-0x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:30:20 +0000 Original-Received: from 222.212.143.89 ([222.212.143.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:30:20 +0000 Original-Received: from lazycat.manatee by 222.212.143.89 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:30:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.212.143.89 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uvkuEhVFEzEQvRmiDbBc5ZXn2MI= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61935 Archived-At: Hi Jan, Try to use winner-mode, at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WinnerMode -- Andy Jan Seeger writes: > Greetings list, > > When getting help on a variable (C-h v), emacs opens a new > window. When I close that window, the original window layout is > lost. Try this: C-x 2 to split. Then C-h v . Then quit the > Help buffer. There is only a single window left. How would I go about > restoring the previous window layout when quitting help? Frankly, C-x > 4 o is a bit long for me.... > > Regards, > Jan Seeger