From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: swaping buffers Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:35:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1142536197.716770.194720@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142545083 13167 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2006 21:38:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 16 22:37:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FK0AB-0002SN-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:37:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FK0AB-0003aY-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:37:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FK09s-0003ZG-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:37:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FK09q-0003YI-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FK09p-0003Y3-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:37:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FK0EZ-0002dQ-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FK09S-0002IM-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:36:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:36:58 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:36:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1142536197.716770.194720@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> 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:33834 Archived-At: dydimustk wrote: > I want to be able to quickly swap between the two open buffers I am > working on, while keeping the screen dimensions. I usually keep a > little buffer open at the bottom of the screen with erc running, and > I'm working in the top part. > > ____________ > | | > | | > | | > |===========| > |-------------------| > > I want to be able to just swap the top and bottom buffer, while keeping > the screen layout the same. Does anyone know if this is possible? Window configurations record which buffer is displayed in each window, so I think you need to explicitly save each configuration. See the Saving Window Configurations in Registers node of the Emacs manual, which also describes how to restore a saved configuration. -- Kevin Rodgers