From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control where frames get created?
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:14:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180930101435.7b834510@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BB081FC.8030704@gmx.at>
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:57:48 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
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)))))
FYI, this turns out to be absolutely perfect. Thank you for that code
snippet.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-30 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-29 22:37 Is there a way to control where frames get created? Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-30 1:37 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-30 7:57 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 12:05 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-30 12:22 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 14:14 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-09-30 14:41 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-30 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-30 17:48 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 18:07 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-30 17:47 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 18:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-10-01 8:35 ` martin rudalics
2018-10-01 11:06 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-10-01 15:06 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 11:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
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