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 10:41:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20180930104147.4fd8c509@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20180929183701.0b49b97d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <5BB081FC.8030704@gmx.at> <20180930101435.7b834510@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> 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 1538318426 17174 195.159.176.226 (30 Sep 2018 14:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:40:26 +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 16:40:22 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 1g6ctS-0004N7-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 16:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6cvY-0002nn-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6cur-0002ni-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6cuq-0004hr-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:60834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6cuq-0004h3-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7055823E; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:41:47 -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 3ADBD2DFBFD; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:41:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20180930101435.7b834510@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> 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:230170 Archived-At: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:14:35 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger" wrote: > > 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. Actually, it is _almost_ perfect. For some odd reason, the new window ends up a few pixels lower than the old. I can fix this with some subtraction but I'm puzzled why setting top to (cdr (frame-position)) isn't quite doing the right thing. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com