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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:52:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6239.1241000304.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> Is there any way of making a particular window persistent? I have an erc
> window which obviously disappears when I do other things and I'd like to
> keep a small window at the bottom of the screen so I can keep an eye on
> it. Is there a function or hack to do this?

You can store the window configuration in a register, and jump back to it.

But if you want to keep an eye on it, the best is to open another
frame, if you're using a window manager.

C-x 5 2    to create a new frame
C-x 5 o    to switch from one frame to the other.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


       reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.6239.1241000304.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-29 10:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-04-29 12:31   ` Fixing a window in place Paul Mead
2009-04-29 14:00     ` Drew Adams
2009-04-29 14:32       ` Paul Mead
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6248.1241008513.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-29 16:57     ` Richard Riley
2009-04-30 23:47   ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-04-29 10:18 Paul Mead
2009-04-29 11:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-04-29 11:19   ` Paul Mead
2009-04-29 11:15 ` Bernardo
2009-04-29 11:24   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-04-29 12:30   ` Paul Mead

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