From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:57:46 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241026912 6336 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2009 17:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 19:41:43 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 1LzDmx-0004zZ-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LzDmw-0004AA-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:41:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+SFOHyAPXBD2rUDdH1YRrnCkieTjuWzEeKoUI8dMc8GOsbav/AGlvJB0xPecT6E+BrRNJLFDwf80ivFGIbUQGyHJY4cmUwLlJdvCUXFOhbDONW0CriUpxW70zqg6GfxqD0PCZW5ycy/w== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:57:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+VCpMdCYdDjEZRdglVkhgfYyTgON+Kt/yM2aXbB9zDIQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:9frtWKSwdJv01QoLsrpe2lYTRGI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168831 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:64105 Archived-At: Paul Mead writes: > pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > >> >> But if you want to keep an eye on it, the best is to open another >> frame, if you're using a window manager. >> >> C-x 5 2 to create a new frame >> C-x 5 o to switch from one frame to the other. > That does look like the best option in the absence of a way of making a > window persistent. Thanks. > > > You might also use the excellent elscreen package. e.g I have gnus on screen 1, gdb on 2, erc on 3 and "general pottering" on 0. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreen