From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:16:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2fc6fbb8-7247-458f-862a-1cf9446739e7@r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273072004 27271 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 15:06:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 15:06:44 +0000 (UTC) To: "'LanX'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 17:06:43 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1O9gBO-0006XW-E6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 17:06:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58698 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9gBN-00034v-Ow for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 11:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9QQ3-00047P-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56270 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9QQ2-00045E-Ae for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9QQ0-0003cl-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:30350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9QQ0-0003cd-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o44MGgbp002864 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 4 May 2010 22:16:43 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o44Fxfkg025111; Tue, 4 May 2010 22:16:41 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt019.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 214374381273011383; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:23 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.104) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:22 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <2fc6fbb8-7247-458f-862a-1cf9446739e7@r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Thread-Index: Acrr1nC2lb9bcvxtQLuqggxh3nlvTwAAIJzQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4BE09CCB.016F:SCFMA4539811,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73459 Archived-At: > I'd like to have dedicated emacs frames for special buffers. > > Let's say all *info* and help buffers always opening in a special > "Help" frame with predefined geometry. > > Switching to these buffers should also raise these frames. > Think of how other Applications show helpcontent on F1, they raise > another (X-) window. > > I was trying > (setq special-display-buffer-names > '("*info*")) > but without success... I do exactly that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneOnOneEmacs. If you don't like exactly the same thing out-of-the-box, looking at the code might nevertheless help you get what you want.