From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete Help Window - restore window config Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:43:39 -0900 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20150128184339.GE1459@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20150128035737.GA1459@mail.akwebsoft.com> <87pp9yx6nx.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422470708 24392 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 18:45:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:45:08 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 19:45:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXbv-0004Co-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:45:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXbu-0000V3-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXab-0007Bg-04 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXaX-0001z8-Py for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from 191-232-4-64.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:64921 helo=tj49.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXaX-0001yq-If for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:43:41 -0500 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0118C598FAA3; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:43:39 -0900 (AKST) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pp9yx6nx.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102341 Archived-At: * Tory S. Anderson [150128 06:34]: > is this not just the kind of thing "Winner mode" is made for? e.g. > I can have a complex 4-window setup with side-by-side code > comparison, directory listing, and my to-do list; I pull up GNUs > and it's all demolished; I use 'winner-undo' and my complex > 4-frame arrangement is all back, including viewing the same > buffers. > AFAIK, it meets your compatibility criteria. > > In my init: > (winner-mode 1) > > Of course, further customizations are possible. It turns out that winner-mode is what I was looking for. I didn't even know that it was part of emacs 24, thanks for the tip, Tory. -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com