Re: gnus-configure-buffer

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Anders Melchiorsen <and@kampsax.dtu.dk> writes:

> I have tried and tried. I am unable to understand the manual on
> Windows Configuration, though.

It's very tough to understand; however, once the light dawns on you,
the window configuration stuff is extremely powerful.  Here is what I
use to get a Tree display along with the Summary:

(gnus-add-configuration '(article
			    (vertical 1.0
				      (horizontal 0.25
						  (summary 0.75 point)
						  (tree 1.0))
				      (article 1.0))))

> What I would like was for any message-mode buffer to pop up in its
> own frame. When I exit editing the message the frame should close.

Hmm.  I am unable to beat Gnus into doing something like this.  One
might expect this to pop up a 10x10 frame for messages:

(gnus-add-configuration
 '(message (frame (height 10 width 10) (message 1.0))))

However, it stays content with showing the message in the existing
frame.  The following does create a new frame, but it doesn't respect
the plist, nor does it remove the new frame when `C-c C-k' is
performed.

(gnus-add-configuration
 '(message (frame (height 10 width 10) (message 1.0) (message 1.0))))

Also, with the above, the "old" frame changes to message, which is
wrong.

I am not sure current window-configuration stuff can be made to do
what you want automatically.  Lars, could you perhaps extend it to
accomodate this?  Is the current behaviour a bug or a feature?