From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Mead Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:31:14 +0100 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 1241008870 28949 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2009 12:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:41:10 +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 14:41:00 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 1Lz95w-0001qS-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz95v-0000cA-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz90J-00063M-Hq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz90E-000608-81 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58040 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz90D-0005zh-On for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47073 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 1Lz90C-000142-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz90B-0003so-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from cpc3-rdng14-0-0-cust786.winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.0.211.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from paul.d.mead by cpc3-rdng14-0-0-cust786.winn.cable.ntl.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:35:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-rdng14-0-0-cust786.winn.cable.ntl.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8ddf9nK3ijE/1G5GVdDBaATqg1w= 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:64099 Archived-At: 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.