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: how to keep/restore my view and mode? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:52:35 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1158816234.643256.254090@e3g2000cwe.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 1158851357 21627 80.91.229.2 (21 Sep 2006 15:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 17:09:15 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 1GQQ5p-0003UU-GX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:04:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQ5p-00083b-0i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQ5e-00083O-Iz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQ5d-00082v-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQQ5d-00082s-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:03:49 -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 1GQQ99-0006kg-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GQPyj-0001O3-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:56:42 +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, 21 Sep 2006 16:56:41 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:56:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1158816234.643256.254090@e3g2000cwe.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:37542 Archived-At: Leo.Hou wrote: > I am not sure if I am using the right term of "view" and "mode". My > problem is as follows: > > I am using C-x 3 and "follow-mode" to view my source code. Every time I > compile, the other column becomes the result of make. I need to use a > lot of keys to switch it back to normal: C-x o; C-x k; C-x o; M-x > follow-mode > Is there a better way? You could display the *Compilation* buffer in its own frame: (setq special-display-buffer-names (cons "*compilation*" special-display-buffer-names)) > And I'd also want to know how to kill the buffer in the other window > without switching to it by C-x o How about a keyboard macro: (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 4 k") (kbd "C-x o C-x k C-x o")) -- Kevin