From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:52:39 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241005808 18936 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2009 11:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 13:49:59 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 1Lz8IY-0001FF-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:49:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38167 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz8IY-0007Ji-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:49:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp15-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDQ4MGZiOTY1NzUzZGI5MDBmNDk4YThjMmIzM2I0ZGM3YjZlZWRjOQ== Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 2009 12:52:40 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1241002360 news-2.free.fr 6812 88.182.134.169:63941 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168819 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:64096 Archived-At: Paul Mead 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__