From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hikaru Ichijyo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: launch a program in an arbitrary frame Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:21:06 -0500 Organization: UN Spacy Message-ID: <8xxwpxyducd.fsf@village.keycorner.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437189919 26114 80.91.229.3 (18 Jul 2015 03:25:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:25:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 18 05:25:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGIkW-0007e4-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 05:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGIkV-0000vG-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 23:25:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/7Zho4YtPiAPW/srsPj70lB2Tw= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: badcafc9.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=fUB5@Gl2na?CObSL`Ra@h6L?0kYOcDh@:GUjHgFPC; W6^1nnZ4nEV6?h6SbOcA0WZ1o=EIjJ5b; W33K:9^o4aV81C3^ZD3SSZ_09D9o`TAIf^0 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213513 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105799 Archived-At: A newbie question (getting more hooked on Emacs): I often run ERC to connect to IM services via a local Bitlbee daemon. It works best running in its own frame, so I know when people are talking to me without having to flip through all my buffers. (A window doesn't seem to be sufficient, since Gnus keeps changing the window layout to its Summary/Article split, and the only way I've found to deal with that is to keep programs whose layout I care about in separate frames.) Anyway, it's redundant to have to manually put ERC in its own frame every time I launch it. I have somethink like this bound to a key: (erc :server "localhost") Some programs have the ability to launch in a new frame built into them, but shouldn't you be able to do that with almost any program? If I wanted to run the above in an 80x24 frame at a particular X coordinate, how would I say that in Elisp? -- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. --Thomas Paine