two windows switch buffer

two windows switch buffer

[henry atting]

Let's say I have a gnus summery buffer and below a gnus article buffer
opened. Now I switch to another buffer, for instance
scratch. Then I have still two windows, at top the scratch buffer and
below the gnus article buffer.

Is there a (hopefully built-in) way to treat this two windows as one and
finally have one single window when switching to the scratch buffer?

Re: two windows switch buffer

[Deric Bytes]

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowsAndRegisters

    C-x r w <letter> – stores the current configuration in a register
    C-x r j <letter> – restores the configuration from a register

Re: two windows switch buffer

[Deric Bytes]

(defun my-find-file-delete-other-windows ()
  ""
  (interactive)
   (prog1
   (call-interactively 'find-file)
   (delete-other-windows)))

Re: two windows switch buffer

[henry atting]

> (defun my-find-file-delete-other-windows ()
>   ""
>   (interactive)
>    (prog1
>    (call-interactively 'find-file)
>    (delete-other-windows)))

Thanks! I changed it slightly

(defun my-buffer-switch ()
  ""
  (interactive)
   (prog1
   (call-interactively 'switch-to-buffer)
   (delete-other-windows)))


When I want my two windows back I think I have to use register which you
already pointed out. Unfortunately I do not like register, I will not
use it.
Thanks anyway!

Re: two windows switch buffer

[Deric Bytes]

registers are amazing you should learn to love them.

I would use 

winner-undo (winner.el) in this case. 

Re: two windows switch buffer

[henry atting]

> registers are amazing you should learn to love them.
>
> I would use 
>
> winner-undo (winner.el) in this case. 

Great!

I did not know it. And it's already part of emacs.

You just made my day!

Re: two windows switch buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

henry atting <snd@online.de> writes:

> (defun my-buffer-switch ...

You probably want that to be transparent, so you could
use something like

(dolist (mode (list gnus-article-mode-map
                    gnus-summary-mode-map) )
  (define-key mode
    [remap switch-to-buffer] 'my-buffer-switch) )

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Re: two windows switch buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

Deric Bytes <dericbytes@gmail.com> writes:

> registers are amazing you should learn to love them.

You can also put *files* in registers:

(set-register ?Z (cons 'file "~/.zprofile"))
(set-register ?a (cons 'file "/sudo::/etc/apt/sources.list"))

Then with jump-to-register (bound to a keystroke) you
can bounce around really fast. Some say you should use
bookmarks for that but there are many ways to do
things.

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