From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:52:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm51T6_8kjaREV7cPwGwJNN-ZyajrZudmZSZBA-7vxUnyPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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 :-)
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 20:52 João Távora [this message]
2013-04-10 21:30 ` frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame Steven Degutis
2013-04-11 1:22 ` João Távora
2013-04-11 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-11 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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