From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Bidar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame? 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I am wondering if it is possible >> to change something so that functions like that instead >> display the buffer in a different frame. > > Just customize `special-display-buffer-names' > or `special-display-regexps'. > > E.g., I use `special-display-buffer-names' > to put *Help* and *Completions* buffers in > their own frames that look different. I put > other *...* buffers in frames with a third > look by setting `special-display-regexps' to > ("[ ]?[*][^*]+[*]"). > > A "special-display" buffer is shown in its own > dedicated frame (you can get more refined than > that, if you like). > > Emacs will tell you that these options are > obsolete. But they're simple to use and they > still work perfectly fine. > > If you instead want to complicate your life, > you can do what those options do and much, > more by customizing `display-buffer-alist' > or its ilk. See the Elisp manual, node > `Displaying Buffers' and all of its progeny. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Displaying-Buffers.html Another option is to use pop-up-frames instead if you want to go fully frames instead of windows. Pop-up-frames will make every new window open a new frame instead.