From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: using special-display-regexps
Date: 18 Jun 2004 08:48:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7ju5wedj.fsf@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3fz8toine.fsf@eric.rossnet.com
Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com> writes:
> >I'm trying to teach emacs to treat some buffers in a special way using
> >this code that is supposed to work:
> >
> >(setq special-display-regexps
> > '(("jabber-chat"
> > ((top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200)))))
> >
> >In the documentation string thew following can be seen:
> >
> > *List of regexps saying which buffers should have their own special
> > frames. If a buffer name matches one of these regexps, it gets its
> > own frame. Displaying a buffer whose name is in this list makes a
> > special frame for it using `special-display-function'.
> >
> > An element of the list can be a list instead of just a string.
> > There are two ways to use a list as an element:
> > (REGEXP FRAME-PARAMETERS...) (REGEXP FUNCTION OTHER-ARGS...)
> > In the first case, FRAME-PARAMETERS are used to create the frame.
> >
> >It works only half way, emacs opens up matching buffers in a new
> >frame, but the supplied frame parameters is not applied.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >I have loaded emacs using --no-init-file and --no-site-file but to no
> >avail.
> >
> >/Mathias
>
>
> The frame parameters should each be elements at the same level as
> "jabber-chat", rather than in their own enclosing list, as you've got it.
> Also, it's better to use (add-to-list ...) rather than setq in this
> context, because setq will clobber anything that's already there.
>
> Put those together, and I think you get something like this:
>
> (add-to-list 'special-display-regexps
> '("jabber-chat" (top . 10) (height . 5) (left . 200)))
>
Aaaaaah! Yes, that did the trick! Is this just a problem with me
or could the documentation be more clear on this subject? I have
fiddles with frame parameters from time to time and then I had
always needed to enclose them in their own list. This is the
reason I thought I had to do the same now.
Thanks!
/Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 22:19 using special-display-regexps Barman Brakjoller
2004-06-17 22:23 ` Barman Brakjoller
2004-06-17 23:43 ` Michael Slass
2004-06-18 6:48 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2004-06-18 14:44 ` Michael Slass
2004-06-18 15:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
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