Re: elisp: set-register

["Dan Elliott" <dan_elliott_at_cox_dot_net@noSpam.org>]

This did it, thank you.

"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Dan Elliott wrote:
>  > "Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>  > news:2vsd2fF2p4vs9U1@uni-berlin.de...
>  >>,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
>  >>| C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
>  >>|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
>  >>| (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
>  >>|
>  >>| Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register
> REGISTER.
>  >>| Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
>  >>| Argument is a character, naming the register.
>  >>`----
>  >
>  > I apologize for being so ignorant, but how does one read the line:
>  > (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)?
>
> It means the function takes 1 required argument (REGISTER) and 1
> optional argument (ARG).
>
>  > This is quite confusing to me to have both REGISTER and ARG.  Does
> ARG stand
>  > for an input the method and REGISTER is the name of that input as used
in
>  > the function?
>
> Indeed, the doc string does not explain ARG, nor do the Emacs and Emacs
> Lisp manuals.  But if you follow the link to the source, you can see
> that it is bound to the raw prefix argument when called interactively
> and then ignored.
>
> So you probably just want: (window-configuration-to-register ?p)
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers