From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:37:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20180120103300336662846@bob.proulx.com> References: <863739gj98.fsf@zoho.com> <20180114150138787200988@bob.proulx.com> <878tczagg8.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516469745 4278 195.159.176.226 (20 Jan 2018 17:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:35:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 20 18:35:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ecx3K-0000fS-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:35:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecx5L-0004Xk-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:37:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecx4l-0004Wy-9I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecx4i-0002Wm-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:60227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecx4h-0002WJ-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C56781 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:37:02 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B353217E5 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:37:02 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 71E1F2DC6B; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:37:02 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878tczagg8.fsf@mbork.pl> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115801 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > To a lessor extend I sometimes use frames. I sometimes use frames > > when I must take a high priority interrupt and do something else for a > > while and want to save the window state of what I was doing and then > > return exactly to it. ... > > That's what I do, too, ut keep in mind that you can also save window > configurations in registers. > > (info "(emacs) Configuration Registers") I have not previously used registers for more than text. Playing around with saving the widow config into registers seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I think I will be using this feature a lot now that I have tried it. Thank you Marcin for expanding my Emacs vocabulary! :-) Bob