From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing a window in place
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:47:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gtddb6$vap$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws9391fs.fsf@galatea.local>
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there any way of making a particular window persistent? I have an erc
>> window which obviously disappears when I do other things and I'd like to
>> keep a small window at the bottom of the screen so I can keep an eye on
>> it. Is there a function or hack to do this?
>
> You can store the window configuration in a register, and jump back to it.
>
> But if you want to keep an eye on it, the best is to open another
> frame, if you're using a window manager.
>
> C-x 5 2 to create a new frame
> C-x 5 o to switch from one frame to the other.
Also, frob special-display-buffer-names.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.6239.1241000304.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-29 10:52 ` Fixing a window in place Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-04-29 12:31 ` Paul Mead
2009-04-29 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-29 14:32 ` Paul Mead
[not found] ` <mailman.6248.1241008513.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-29 16:57 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-30 23:47 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2009-04-29 10:18 Paul Mead
2009-04-29 11:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-04-29 11:19 ` Paul Mead
2009-04-29 11:15 ` Bernardo
2009-04-29 11:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-04-29 12:30 ` Paul Mead
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