From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configurations Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 01:54:35 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87eihf3don.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4BE96186.7060504@gmx.de> <4BEA74B7.2070609@gmx.at> <4BEA8D2D.4090109@gmx.de> <4BEAA73F.4060608@gmx.at> <4BEAF487.1070605@gmx.de> <4BEBD2E3.8020200@gmx.at> <4BEBE52D.5080102@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273795166 28588 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2010 23:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 23:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: grischka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 14 01:59:23 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCiJG-0005bn-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 01:59:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OCiJF-0006pB-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 19:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56359 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OCiJ4-0006nE-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 19:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCiJ2-0003bJ-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 19:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:54655 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCiJ2-0003b9-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 19:59:08 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.96.45.cable.starman.ee [82.131.96.45]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8B13F40D2; Fri, 14 May 2010 02:59:05 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <4BEBE52D.5080102@gmx.de> (grischka's message of "Thu, 13 May 2010 13:40:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124751 Archived-At: > Aside from that it is really trivial to specify any reasonably complex > layouts as simple lisp structure, with sizes in percent, similar to say > framesets in html: > > (setq my-layout '( > (div-v > (30 div-h > (75 top-window-1) > (25 top-window-2) > ) > (55 div-h > (25 div-v > (50 sidebar-1) > (25 sidebar-2) > (25 sidebar-3) > ) > (75 edit-area) > ) > (15 tool-window) > ))) HTML framesets use the `rows' and `cols' attributes to split the screen vertically and horizontally into frames (Emacs windows). The above window configuration could be defined by HTML framesets as: > That simple thing would be a pretty detailed layout already suited for > almost all purposes (except GUD perhaps). What's the problem with GUD? > For that of course you need a second set of preferences, that is what > buffer show in what pane: For example, *messages*, *compilation*, > *completion*, etc. can be assigned to "tool-window", *speedbar* to > sidebar-1, *help* on "top-1", files and such to "edit-area", and so on ... IOW, to "dedicate" a window to a buffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/