Re: using special-display-regexps

[Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com>]

Barman Brakjoller <brakjoller@hotmail.com> writes:

>I'm trying to teach emacs to treat some buffers in a special way using
>this code that is supposed to work:
>
>(setq special-display-regexps 
>      '(("jabber-chat" 
>      ((top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200)))))
>
>In the documentation string thew following can be seen:
>
>  *List of regexps saying which buffers should have their own special
>  frames.  If a buffer name matches one of these regexps, it gets its
>  own frame.  Displaying a buffer whose name is in this list makes a
>  special frame for it using `special-display-function'.
>
>  An element of the list can be a list instead of just a string.
>  There are two ways to use a list as an element:
>    (REGEXP FRAME-PARAMETERS...)   (REGEXP FUNCTION OTHER-ARGS...)
>  In the first case, FRAME-PARAMETERS are used to create the frame.
>
>It works only half way, emacs opens up matching buffers in a new
>frame, but the supplied frame parameters is not applied.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>I have loaded emacs using --no-init-file and --no-site-file but to no
>avail.
>
>/Mathias


The frame parameters should each be elements at the same level as
"jabber-chat", rather than in their own enclosing list, as you've got it.
Also, it's better to use (add-to-list ...) rather than setq in this
context, because setq will clobber anything that's already there.

Put those together, and I think you get something like this:

(add-to-list 'special-display-regexps 
      '("jabber-chat" (top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200)))


-- 
Mike Slass