From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using only one emacs session Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <32aa9d73-5926-4435-8b76-646c53a58fd0@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <87eiup8353.fsf@galatea.local> <87tz3k644i.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242546045 17891 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2009 07:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 07:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 09:40:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M5az8-0000tm-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 09:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52137 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5az8-0008SP-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 03:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x6g2000vbg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242543681 30669 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2009 07:01:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 07:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x6g2000vbg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.10, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169255 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64512 Archived-At: On May 17, 1:05=A0am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > > The results are better for other kinds of register contents. > > But if you're not happy with this result, why don't you patch it? Because I don't have skills to do that I'm just a dumb emacs _user_. > > The problem here is that window-configuration are opaque objects. [...] > > > Other things (perharps more important) that make window package > > superior is that it allows me to use some window navigation 'a la' gnu > > screen (go back and forth between the 2 most recent visited windows, > > go to the next/previous window, select a window among a list of well > > described window etc...). > > I don't know what "window package" is, so I cannot comment, but it > seems to me that these features are already present in emacs, or > easily added. Please have a look to http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/ to get details. But basically (taken from Windows.el): ;;; Windows.el enables you to have multiple favorite window ;;; configurations at the same time, and switch them. Furthermore, ;;; it can save all window configurations and some global or ;;; buffer-local variables into a file and restore them correctly.