From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: call function in other window ? Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 01:50:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <0F7D0254-9A80-42BF-82EB-E09007BE3A39@gmail.com> <38f43e30-eeb0-427a-a885-fbd30d0d0d97@default> <26D747C5-FD5A-4810-938E-77DD21C6D2F9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495324284 14005 195.159.176.226 (20 May 2017 23:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 23:51:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 01:51:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE9V-0003Sp-4I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 01:51:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE9a-0000hg-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 19:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE95-0000hN-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 19:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE92-0008D8-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 19:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33355 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE92-0008Cj-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 19:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dCE8u-0002gT-Lw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 01:50:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:wK8Bwc76Lk99pNbynKeodt0aACE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113093 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Wouldn't it be something that people use > frequently enough that is has its own > function in Emacs ? I don't think people do this that often. Probably what people do is `other-window', or whatever command to get to the desired buffer, and then M-x their function, then get back... There are shortcuts, or they can be set up, to move very rapidly between buffers, keyboard only. If you want to optimize a specific case in Elisp, you could do something like (defun do-something-other-window () (interactive) (save-window-excursion (other-window 1) (do-something) )) Perhaps with a check included to see where you ended up - at least if "do-something" includes changing the other buffer. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573