From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:30:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3iE0WH_54xdus6ufkE_6fWSgN4nN8J93i3toYBCUvF_SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm51T6_8kjaREV7cPwGwJNN-ZyajrZudmZSZBA-7vxUnyPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Depending on why you want this behavior, you might find this project
useful: https://github.com/sdegutis/project-buffers.el
-Steven
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:52 PM, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I needed to scratch a code-browsing itch and came up with this monster:
>
> (defvar joaot/browse-frame)
> (setq joaot/browse-frame (new-frame))
> (setq display-buffer-alist
> `((joaot/browse-buffer-p . (joaot/browse-buffer-in-special-frame .
> nil))))
>
> (defun joaot/browse-buffer-p (buffer action)
> (declare (ignore action))
> (let ((buffer (and buffer
> (get-buffer buffer))))
> (and (frame-live-p joaot/browse-frame)
> buffer
> (buffer-file-name buffer)
> (string-match "someproject" (buffer-file-name buffer)))))
>
> (defun joaot/browse-buffer-in-special-frame (buffer alist)
> (let ((window (frame-selected-window joaot/browse-frame)))
> (window--display-buffer buffer window 'reuse alist)))
>
> (defadvice switch-to-buffer (around joaot/browse-buffer-maybe activate)
> (if (joaot/browse-buffer-p buffer-or-name nil)
> (display-buffer buffer-or-name)
> ad-do-it))
>
> Do you see what it is doing? Whenever I switch to a buffer or file
> belonging to "someproject", which I only want to read, it makes sure
> the buffer is displayed in a special "browse-frame" created beforehand
> and that lives in my secondary monitor.
>
> This is not quite "dedicated windows". It's sort of frames dedicated
> to buffers.
>
> Does anyone know of a less hackish way to do this? The defadvice is
> particularly nasty... Do you see this breaking anything important that
> I'm not seeing??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> J
>
> PS: yes I refuse to open a secondary emacs instance on principle :-)
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 20:52 frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame João Távora
2013-04-10 21:30 ` Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-04-11 1:22 ` João Távora
2013-04-11 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-11 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-04-12 9:28 martin rudalics
2013-04-12 12:12 ` João Távora
2013-04-12 13:13 ` João Távora
2013-04-12 14:15 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <CALDnm50Q=eNA6rgUS-DQD2RLuE=kyizGpYWyENVU=2Py+-MTig@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-14 18:42 ` João Távora
2013-04-15 7:11 ` martin rudalics
2013-04-12 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-13 8:01 ` martin rudalics
2013-04-14 18:18 ` João Távora
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