From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Bennee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Is there a function for display-buffer-in-biggest-window? Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:19:20 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341577180 810 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2012 12:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:19:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 14:19:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sn7VY-00025b-Ej for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:19:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sn7VX-0007sv-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sn7VQ-0007sn-VY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sn7VL-0007v2-VR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:33998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sn7VL-0007um-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: by vbkv13 with SMTP id v13so7293405vbk.0 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:19:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=hwjZY1lpXTlSTm0jGT2G7cMc4vt7XxcNBS6GgLg0luk=; b=opbunYBtdRy40VPc2jG81DmthlUmCzN2krOklnjVNNgRullhRw89NjhKoai1A2zOeZ SyV7edSZ3qz+zavJ0vNqsYIbaSx2/vUmYFdH3Oj9qeEUfmWcnxUp8d4O2YEIw6rcBDH1 bwrz2ygt7zT4+bkMkq9kn/Hf08V/lwI8LiOC1QPWyEuOHWUcmxyz/0cm2GCprkDGxs4z SMnL6NCGXR5rQUDcobLLSJ4bzO4ZwtD8W8+FprhY/NN4HBJJ0mxDRdxum9sjECAmZWRh Ydohmy9ff8mUz3ItnuyXeQwtPQgnXtuYlYWeAncqx229ImdYImLCclqM/sug6Z8rhQeg KJfA== Original-Received: by 10.52.33.37 with SMTP id o5mr12260664vdi.86.1341577160800; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.5.14 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 05:19:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0otmstxK5If6P8iivHfl-Z2o-O8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkco0OLWWWsSBPl6WK2L/mp+SuCIywlprMpWbOWhELFc2PIbJ57ztvR8djgo/KAS2ua24fa X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85697 Archived-At: Hi, My work station has a fairly wide monitor on it now so my main work frame has been split thusly: -------------- | | | | | | | |---| | | | | |---| | | | -------------- However I keep having problems with buffers things open in. The bottom two on the right are "dedicated" ERC windows so it's a choice of the main window or the top right. For some operations (e.g. man pages) I want to use the top right, for others (e.g. compilation-goto-error) I want to use the biggest frame. The function display-buffer seems to be the all singing dancing function to use (over pop-to-buffer and switch-to-buffer). However is there a display-buffer-largest-window or equivalent? Cheers, -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk .