From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there a way to control where frames get created? Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20180930080504.09267d2b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20180929183701.0b49b97d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <5BB081FC.8030704@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538308990 10456 195.159.176.226 (30 Sep 2018 12:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 14:03:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1g6aRF-0002dT-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:03:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6aTM-00083z-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6aTD-00083a-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6aTC-0000H4-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:60368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6aTC-0000G8-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162AB18D4; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D828D2DFBFC; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:05:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5BB081FC.8030704@gmx.at> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230166 Archived-At: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:57:48 +0200 martin rudalics wrote: > > I'd like to rig things up so that make-frame-command creates its > > new frame adjacent to the existing frame if that's geometrically > > possible on the GUI display. To do that, I'd need to both be > > able to find out where the existing frame is, and to tell > > make-frame-command where to create the new frame. > > > > Are there any hooks that make this possible? Any advice on how I > > might go about doing it? > > To put a frame right on the right of the selected one use > > (make-frame `((left . ,(+ (car (frame-position)) > (frame-outer-width))) (top . ,(cdr (frame-position))))) Thank you that's precisely what I want to do! I'll try it out. BTW, do you know what this does if there isn't sufficient room to the right? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com