From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compilation-goto-locus, pop-up-windows, same-window-regexps Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:05:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vfyjbnhr.fsf@gnu.org> <87d6kqfj72.fsf@gnu.org> <87vfycib7k.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048471797 16824 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 02:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 03:09:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xHPQ-0004ND-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:09:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18xHPg-0002MP-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:10:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xHOc-0005Wq-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xHNg-0004lq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xHNM-0004PH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xHKy-000356-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18xHKv-0002On-00; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:05:17 -0500 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-reply-to: <87vfycib7k.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:52:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12559 > I used to think that C-x r w 1 (store window config in register) was > the way to get back easily to complex window configurations, but it > turned out to not work. For one, it remembered buffer positions, > > Perhaps we should add a way of restoring a window configuration > that does not restore the positions. I don't think that is enough, because when I want a "Gnus" window, that window might hold the group buffer, the summary buffer, an article, or a new message I am writing. I don't see precisely how that relates to the issue; could you spell out the connection?