From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:24:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <49F836B7.9010300@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241004336 14202 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2009 11:25:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 13:25:28 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 1Lz7un-00069o-RU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:25:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz7un-000555-7J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz7uQ-00054w-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz7uL-00054F-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40013 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz7uL-00054C-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:40357) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lz7uK-0000i4-F7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1183837fxm.42 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:24:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fjA0N37cqVFKqIrY+eyK5W+DTXR8vG/+qJuc1oIAdYw=; b=CuTwSpaYcXrA5WiHGilVwNXZAdvmqtWIEcIHhNLR8u7Sx+Eb0M+gPqsgqjySjVXgDJ 21hGsiEi8e9RrGegjVXjgUgvYcjAUSZ5gtaMdcdJ2qpj/nP5KviKmY7C0q4uf1g9q1To 5MTjjFmgZiXiky25EWWdkZxplMdjopDsohNgA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vi1SL8TasP/+KbH5DTQtVdm1eQ3p8PQudOfoj7d7Ju/wKYzSNoOVYPMIuuOJwSwzld Y20b0D2cXlsJq5Se8RrePt6KOXN8XXD9+mo04MWZ0IOQEm7S8ceHXNa7HFOE79RrJYnM PDWLp1KwJc1t6UijgGK93QLvtalJBvhhSVDhM= Original-Received: by 10.223.108.75 with SMTP id e11mr132614fap.51.1241004295631; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:24:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49F836B7.9010300@pobox.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:64095 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Bernardo wrote: > >> 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? >> >> Thanks >> Paul > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2007-05/msg00975.html The doc string for set-window-dedicated-p says that using t for the FLAG argument makes the window "strongly dedicated". The description for what this actually mean is a bit vague, but it seems like it better to use t in most cases.