limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[LanX]

Hi

I'd like to have dedicated emacs frames for special buffers.


Let's say all *info* and help buffers always opening in a special
"Help" frame with predefined geometry.

Switching to these buffers should also raise these frames.

Think of how other Applications show helpcontent on F1, they raise
another (X-) window.

I was trying

     (setq special-display-buffer-names
           '("*info*"))

but without success...

Thanks for any help
  Rolf

Re: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[Colin S. Miller]

LanX wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I was trying
> 
>      (setq special-display-buffer-names
>            '("*info*"))
> 
Hi Rolf,
On Xemacs, it is
       (setq special-display-buffer-names
             '(
                ( "buffer-name-1" (variable-1a . 'value1a)  (variable-1b . 'value1b)  )
                ( "buffer-name-2" (variable-2a . 'value1a)  (variable-2b . 'value2b)  )
               )
       )

should be the same for GNU emacs.

> 
> Thanks for any help
>   Rolf
> 

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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Re: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[Glenn Morris]

LanX wrote:

> I was trying
>
>      (setq special-display-buffer-names
>            '("*info*"))
>
> but without success...

C-h v special-display-buffer-names

    If this variable appears "not to work", because you added a name to
    it but the corresponding buffer is displayed in the selected window,
    look at the values of `same-window-buffer-names' and
    `same-window-regexps'. Those variables take precedence over this one.

Re: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[LanX]

On 19 Apr., 23:30, Glenn Morris <rgm+n...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> C-h v special-display-buffer-names

Thanks deleting the "info" regexp in `same-window-regexps' helped. 8)

BTW: I read the "C-h v" description of all these variables yesterday
more than once but was confused what "same" has to mean.

Now I know It's not the "same" window where "*info*" was already
displayed but the "actual" window from where the command is invoked...

RE: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[Drew Adams]

> I'd like to have dedicated emacs frames for special buffers.
> 
> Let's say all *info* and help buffers always opening in a special
> "Help" frame with predefined geometry.
> 
> Switching to these buffers should also raise these frames.
> Think of how other Applications show helpcontent on F1, they raise
> another (X-) window.
> 
> I was trying
>      (setq special-display-buffer-names
>            '("*info*"))
> but without success...

I do exactly that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneOnOneEmacs.

If you don't like exactly the same thing out-of-the-box, looking at the code
might nevertheless help you get what you want.

Re: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames

[LanX]

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Thanks Drew I'll try it out! 8)

I do exactly that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneOnOneEmacs.
>
> If you don't like exactly the same thing out-of-the-box, looking at the
> code
> might nevertheless help you get what you want.
>
>
>

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