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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to pickle split window?
Date: 8 Mar 2013 20:59:29 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnkjkk9h.a6b.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r4jpejyn.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info

Haines Brown wrote:
> Sorry I was not clearer. I understand there are commands to restore
> previous window layout, but my interest was for it to be automatic, so
> that for example when I close gnus, emacs returns automatically to the
> prior windows layout. It would even be nice to return automatically to
> the the prior buffers displayed in those windows.
>
> I suspect the answer to somehow to add a hook to gnus quit that
> automatically runs (defun reload ()), perhaps calling back most recent
> buffers for those windows.

you can store the current window configuration in a variable using
`current-window-configuration' and restore it with
`set-window-configuration'.

IMHO any package that takes over the window configuration (such as gnus
does) should do that...

-- 
Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 11:32 How to pickle split window? Haines Brown
2013-03-08 15:32 ` jpkotta
2013-03-08 20:05   ` Haines Brown
2013-03-08 20:52     ` Lowell Gilbert
2013-03-09 13:15       ` Haines Brown
2013-03-09 14:19         ` Lowell Gilbert
2013-03-10  2:47         ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found]         ` <mailman.21792.1362883346.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-10 14:00           ` Haines Brown
2013-03-08 20:59     ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2013-03-09  0:35     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-03-09  8:24     ` Ivan Kanis

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