From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Annoying window/frame-configuration registers Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:15:18 +0800 Message-ID: References: <83fwq7ru1q.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301357743 3628 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 00:15:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:15:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 02:15:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Maw-0004Hx-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:15:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Maw-0005Ax-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47668 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Mar-0005Af-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Maq-0001ro-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Map-0001rk-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Mao-0004H1-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:15:30 +0200 Original-Received: from th041092.ip.tsinghua.edu.cn ([59.66.41.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:15:30 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by th041092.ip.tsinghua.edu.cn with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:15:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: th041092.ip.tsinghua.edu.cn Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAG1BMVEUAAAA9Cgm3Hx1WWFWA gn+WmJWsrqv4+vcCAwCRl2MkAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAAAYoA AAGKATOXMFgAAAAHdElNRQfXAQwDNR+ZJmElAAABIklEQVQoz22SPW+DQAyGWUq65qasd9PNUSX4 AZHK2C1rJy5jpDS4IwRVup9dn7GNafpKIPPgzztXFSujqq1eM2n8h22oMkvxI/i9C97kRfMRUN55 dS3BrsAwBXUtMLAO4lryh8kTjOxKpQNniNxAgZOEe4bZwsDTFhKdqZRLNII4OQNHhEuq/RMkm6Cj TnnEA/fk0BorcYn5qA3oaeAxbaBOLrX+9G48NZ2Fzc2tzDM8Q+tMypEOqYHh8mAWaaK3U/cDMOT5 aMZMABgPXc7zPMs1A8DXO756GFJ/4fMEq47hTsAdn5avoxZ4ywl0c2w4Flu2Ybeyb3S+EqxX2DYA H8veJGEDTnHnrXvRaPyt+2kSfK6rfBZ2tUtfP/mR+pR6sX8BUZ/cDV7tvkoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3.50 (Mac OS X 10.6.7) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LIu+pTYn96UFbOGr9MUMhksCdoI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137822 Archived-At: On 2011-03-29 02:14 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm quite sure there are use cases where point restoration is needed. > However, a customizable option to do what you want is probably a good > idea. I suspect so but I can not find any more information from the history. Would be good to know its use cases and check whether they are obsolete. On 2011-03-29 02:51 +0800, martin rudalics wrote: > `jump-to-register' is a command which does > > "Move point to location stored in a register." > > Your change would keep `point' unaltered which doesn't fit the > description of the function. I would write a new function say > `restore-window-configuration-from-register' and try to find some key > for it. > > martin In that case, I wonder if it makes sense to change the doc string to mean 'jump to the state recorded by a register'. Finding another key binding is less inconvenient since there is one more key to remember and I kind of like 'C x r j'. WDYT? Thanks to all for comments. Leo