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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control where frames get created?
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:57:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5BB081FC.8030704@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180929183701.0b49b97d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>

 > 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)))))

martin



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-30  7:57 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 [this message]
2018-09-30 12:05   ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-30 12:22     ` martin rudalics
2018-09-30 14:14   ` Perry E. Metzger
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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