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: switching frame focus Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:12:32 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <7f270cb80605040725o7dd996dbnd6abaa66fedb9d62@mail.gmail.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 1146766585 11803 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 18:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 20:16:24 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 1FbiNC-0005Fs-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:16:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiNB-0007nJ-GV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiML-0007Rc-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiMJ-0007QS-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiMI-0007QM-V5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:15:26 -0400 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 1FbiMx-0004iL-LA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:16:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbiLz-00054W-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 20:15:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <7f270cb80605040725o7dd996dbnd6abaa66fedb9d62@mail.gmail.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:34825 Archived-At: John Conrad wrote: > It always annoyed me that C-x C-b (and lots of other commands) open > new windows, possibly messing up my window configuration, and almost > always requiring me to take the extra step of hitting C-x o (or F7, > which I've bound to 'other-window). About a year ago I took the step > of adding the following sexp to my .emacs file, which causes all these > buffer-creating commands to open in the current window: > > (setq same-window-regexps (list ".*")) > > I would be curious to hear from anybody who might share my frustration > and has found an alternative solution. I do not share your frustration, but you might try frobbing this variable instead: ,----[ C-h v pop-up-windows RET ] | pop-up-windows is a variable defined in `C source code'. | Its value is t | | Documentation: | *Non-nil means display-buffer should make new windows. | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- I prefer to leave pop-up-windows as its default (t), but: (global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'electric-buffer-list) and: (setq special-display-buffer-names (nconc '("*Async Shell Command*" "*Backtrace*" "*VC-log*" "*compilation*" "*grep*") special-display-buffer-names)) (setq special-display-frame-alist (cons '(tool-bar-lines . 0) special-display-frame-alist)) -- Kevin