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: Fixing a window in place Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:47:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241135319 1341 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2009 23:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 01:48:29 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 1LzfzQ-0006PZ-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 May 2009 01:48:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LzfzP-0002V6-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lzfz6-0002Uz-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lzfz1-0002Uc-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lzfz0-0002UZ-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44889 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lzfz0-00063y-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lzfyz-0006sO-Hh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) In-Reply-To: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:64126 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Paul Mead writes: > >> 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? > > You can store the window configuration in a register, and jump back to it. > > 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. Also, frob special-display-buffer-names. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA