From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaus Rath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Frame for opening rgrep links? Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:11:32 -0800 Message-ID: <546002B4.1030307@rath.org> References: <87k334oz3c.fsf@vostro.rath.org> <2e170ea2-4b3a-4bfc-96fa-876c375344d9@default> <545FF909.1010808@rath.org> <81878128-c21a-4752-be57-91ac70b290a2@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415578342 19788 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 00:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:12:22 +0000 (UTC) To: Drew Adams , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 01:12:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xncab-0008SM-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:12:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xncaa-0006Mq-Hg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XncaF-0006Mf-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnca3-0002W5-WA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ebox.rath.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe69:db07]:41674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnca3-0002Vy-Qf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ip68-5-174-57.oc.oc.cox.net ([68.5.174.57] helo=[192.168.17.47]) by ebox.rath.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnca2-0002mv-Cq; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:11:38 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: <81878128-c21a-4752-be57-91ac70b290a2@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe69:db07 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100876 Archived-At: On 11/09/2014 03:55 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >>> Sounds like the window for buffer *grep* is a dedicated window. >>> >>> Check your values of options `special-display-buffer-names' and >>> `special-display-regexps'. >> >> special-display-buffer-names is a variable defined in `window.el'. >> Its value is nil >> >> special-display-regexps is a variable defined in `window.el'. >> Its value is nil >> >>> Or if you use only option `display-buffer-alist' then check its >>> value - see the doc for an explanation of this complicated option. >>> See also the doc of `display-buffer', which you'll need to >> understand >>> the doc of `display-buffer-alist' . Look for an entry that >>> corresponds by name or regexp etc. to `*grep*' or `*compile*'. >> >> I don't seem to have a "display-buffer-alist" option (Emacs 23.4.1). >> >> Anything I could look at? > > I should have said to first check whether the window for `*grep*' > is in fact dedicated. With your cursor in that window, do this: > `M-: (window-dedicated-p (selected-window))'. If it says `t' > then the window is dedicated; if is says `nil' then it is not. > > Perhaps someone else has another suggestion, if it is not > dedicated. If it is, then you will need to look further to find > out why. Unfortunately it's nil.. Any other ideas, anyone? Thanks, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«