From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Preserving window layout Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:10:46 +0100 Organization: Christ Church Chelmsford U.K. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878ysdj53d.fsf@millingtons.org> References: Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054998646 10030 80.91.224.249 (7 Jun 2003 15:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 17:10:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19OfLB-0002be-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 17:10:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19OfLG-0004Dc-0F for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 11:10:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!glynthebearded.millingtons.org!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.134.234.117 Original-X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 1054998573 2814 217.134.234.117 (7 Jun 2003 15:09:33 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jun 2003 15:09:33 GMT Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter, A.D. 2003 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VrAwRt3Vfi67f101OW72zRdkLdQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114270 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10764 Matthew Calhoun writes: > What I would like do is keep this basic layout the same, viewing > various buffers only in the top two windows, and keeping the shell > window undisturbed at the bottom. So, is there some way to "lock" a > screen layout, or at least a single window? And can I prevent my shell > buffer from being replaced by other buffers? I wonder if winring.el will give you what you need Take a look at http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html in general and the winring package in particular ;-) hth Glyn