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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: Philip@kime.org.uk
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some way to have cursor focus on help windows automatically?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:43:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4718FACD.8030108@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192754215.200986.134870@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

Philip@kime.org.uk wrote:
> Emacs 22.1 - currently undergoing the pain of XEmacs -> GNU emacs
> transition ...
> 
> When I do C-h <whatever> and the buffer-window splits to display the
> help buffer, I want the focus to go to the help buffer so I can just
> to "q" to get rid of it. So much more convenient what C-x 1 in the
> original buffer. Any way to set this?
> 

Not exactly what you want, but this causes the selected window types to
use the current window, with focus:

; Make some buffers which by default appear in the 'other' window
; appear in the current window.
(nconc same-window-buffer-names '("*Buffer List*" "*Help*"))


Andrew Walrond

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19  0:36 Some way to have cursor focus on help windows automatically? Philip
2007-10-19 13:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-19 13:30   ` William Xu
2007-10-19 13:42     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-19 14:06       ` William Xu
2007-10-19 14:12         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-19 14:29           ` William Xu
2007-10-19 14:36             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-20 22:00   ` Allan Gottlieb
2007-10-19 13:33 ` William Xu
2007-10-19 18:43 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2295.1192798813.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-19 22:45   ` Philip

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