From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan-husmann@t-online.de, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to have a frame dedicated to buffers of a certain kind? (was: use pdf-tools in Emacs.)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 15:21:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+Erb2NNTR3madpouUVtj2oxEHOSM7cLe_Eo9+7gbw3kA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878re8h87w.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 2:33 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> > But I found a further problem: If I first opened the PDF file, then
> >> > it still won't be able to create a new frame dedicated to buffers
> >> > of LaTeX code, as shown in the attached screenshot.
> >>
> >> True. I didn't know this was a requirement. Basically you could just
> >> copy&paste&adapt this code to dedicate a special frame to anything you'd
> >> like. But that's left as an excercise to the reader. ;-)
> >
> > I tried as follows, but still can't achieve the goal:
>
> Hm, I think a problem might be that when you open the PDF first (and
> this actually starts emacs itself), the th/pdf-frame frame parameter
> might not be assigned to that frame. Please verify using M-:
> (frame-parameter nil 'th/pdf-frame) RET in that frame. If it doesn't
> return t, then that's the case. Then you'd somehow need to ensure that
> this initial frame gets the parameter, e.g., by adding a function like
> this to some reasonable hook:
>
> (defun th/pdf-frame-ensure ()
> (when (and (derived-mode-p 'pdf-view-mode)
> (zerop (length (seq-filter
> (lambda (f)
> (frame-parameter f 'th/pdf-frame))
> (frame-list)))))
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'th/pdf-frame t)))
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know which hook. pdf-view-mode-hook might run
> too early, i.e., the buffer might be set up before displaying it which
> eventually will create the frame. So maybe after-make-frame-functions
> is better (but then you'd need to use the frame given as parameter). I
> guess you'll need to do some testing here.
>
> BTW, I wonder if you really want to have a dedicated tex frame or just a
> dedicated pdf frame + one editing/normal frame. If it's actually the
> latter, I wouldn't introduce another th/tex-frame parameter but simply
> test for (null (frame-parameter frame 'th/pdf-frame)) everywhere.
Please go ahead with the latter and let me test it.
> Bye,
> Tassilo
Best,
Zhao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-01 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-25 14:50 use pdf-tools in Emacs Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-25 15:09 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-04-26 2:01 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-27 11:23 ` stefan-husmann
2023-04-27 15:02 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-27 15:27 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-27 15:53 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-27 23:54 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-27 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-27 23:55 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-28 7:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-28 10:48 ` christian de larrinaga via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-28 12:43 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-28 13:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-28 13:37 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-28 13:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-29 2:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-29 8:30 ` How to have a frame dedicated to buffers of a certain kind? (was: use pdf-tools in Emacs.) Tassilo Horn
2023-04-29 9:25 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-29 9:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-29 10:08 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-29 19:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-04-30 0:42 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-30 0:52 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-30 18:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-05-01 0:28 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 6:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-05-01 7:21 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2023-05-02 18:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-05-03 1:45 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-03 2:37 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-05-03 3:24 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-03 3:38 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-03 7:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-05-09 0:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-30 1:05 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 10:09 ` where to get "use-package"? [was: Re: use pdf-tools in Emacs] gebser
2023-05-01 10:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-02 0:46 ` gebser
2023-05-18 14:51 ` use pdf-tools in Emacs Björn Bidar
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