Re: Emacs shell and frames

[Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com>]

On 16 Feb 2003, Robert@Knighten.org wrote:
> 
> The emacs 'shell' command has the nice feature that if the shell
> buffer already exists it is reused, including simply switching to the
> buffer if the shell process is also running.  I prefer to use a
> separate FRAME for this purpose.  Do any of you have a version of the
> 'shell' command that will reuse an existing shell frame in much the
> same manner as is now done with the shell buffer?

I cut a sample of the buffers I use this for.  I should be obvious by
the parameter's names how to customize to your own preferences.  The
main thing is that if you open a new shell window, it opens in a new
frame.  If you C-x b *shell*, that frame pops up.

(setq special-display-buffer-names
      '(("*info*"
	 (top . 5)
	 (left . 100)
	 (width . 90)
	 (height . 55)
	 (background-color . "gray85")
	 (font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-11-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
	 (menu-bar-lines . 0))
	("*shell*"
	 (top . 5)
	 (left . -75)
	 (width . 80)
	 (height . 50)
	 (menu-bar-lines . 0)
	 (font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
	 (foreground-color . "black")
	 (background-color . "snow"))
	("*Help*"
	 (top . 5)
	 (left . -75)
	 (width . 80)
	 (height . 50)
	 (menu-bar-lines . 0)
	 (font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
	 (foreground-color . "black")
	 (background-color . "light steel blue"))
	))

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Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.