* Window state/configuration (and markers)
@ 2014-07-23 16:38 Carlos Pita
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Carlos Pita @ 2014-07-23 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi all,
I would like to save/restore window state/configuration without
including markers (point, start). I'm aware I'm neither the only nor
the first one looking for this and I know of a number of hacks and
advices to get it working. That's not my issue, then.
Instead I would like to focus here in the relationship between
window-configurations (opaque type) and window-states (relatively new
elisp-level alternative) and the reason why the latter seems to be
poorly adopted by the myriad of
workspaces/workgroups/perspectives/winmgrs extensions and why it's not
supported by vanilla emacs to the same extent than the former.
So:
1) Do you know of some extension already using the window-state machinery?
2) Why no excursion, registry, etc. functionality is provided
out-of-the-box as a counterpart to the window-configuration ones?
3) Are the window-state-get/set functions the current way to go or
just another tool in the toolset? Are window-configurations kept for
historical reasons or have they some technical advantages over
window-states?
Finally, this one is specifically related to my no-marker requirement:
4) Years ago there was some discussion in the dev list about adding an
option to avoid saving markers in window-configurations. Someone
pointed out that the window-state-* functions were just to be merged
and the discussion then diverted to this more exciting topic. Nowadays
I'm not able to find any quick option to get the no-marker
configuration. True, window-state-get has the writable argument, but
the out-of-the-box registry functions and mappings are still missing.
Do you think it would be of some worth to have a more ready to use
solution here? I mean, the save/restore layout use case is best served
by a no-marker configuration/state.
Best regards
--
Carlos
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Window state/configuration (and markers)
[not found] <mailman.5928.1406147802.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
@ 2014-07-23 21:51 ` Emanuel Berg
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2014-07-23 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:
> I would like to save/restore window
> state/configuration ...
What problem or undesirable situation do you
experience?
I seldom find it sensible to store and load window
configurations. But if you habitually setup very
ambitious configs with debugging, documentation (man
pages, browser, etc.), source, some e-mail or post
discussion the source, the file directory, and
everything else you can think of... yeah.
This is the material I have on this. It works but I
don't know about the mark or everything else you
mention.
(setq default-win-config-reg ?0)
(defun save-win-config (&optional reg)
(interactive "P")
(window-configuration-to-register
(if reg reg default-win-config-reg) ))
(defun fetch-win-config (&optional reg)
(interactive "P")
(jump-to-register
(if reg reg default-win-config-reg)) )
--
underground experts united
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2014-07-23 21:51 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
[not found] <mailman.5928.1406147802.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-23 21:51 ` Window state/configuration (and markers) Emanuel Berg
2014-07-23 16:38 Carlos Pita
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.