Re: buffer layout when composing

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes:

>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way for doing that ?
>>>
>>> Sure.  See the Window Layout section in the manual.
>
>> Well, I was expecting this answer but I did try to understand what's
>> written in this section but failed. At least to achieve what I'm trying
>> to do (replacing the article window by the composing one).
>
>> I can see how to configure a general layout but it won't replace the
>> article window only in my setting.
>
>> Could you give me a hint how to do that ?
>
> Somewhere in your gnus-buffer-configuration you should have a member
> like this (mine is customized, so yours, presumably the default, won't
> look quite the same):
>
> ((article
>   (horizontal 1.0
> 	      (vertical 84
> 			(summary 0.25 point)
> 			(article 1.0))
> 	      (vertical 1.0
> 			(group 1.0)))))
>
> What you want to do is add similar members for at least message, and
> possibly 'reply, forward and others that might be used for message
> generation (there's a bunch, but many aren't used so often that
> perhaps it's not worth worrying about them) with the same structure
> with 'message where you see 'article.

Ok but I don't think I can achieve what I want with this.

What I want is to _reuse_ the article buffer when composing emails
whatever the current window layout.

For example, let say I have this current setting:

          +---------+---------+
          | Summary |         |
          +---------+         |
          |         |   ERC   |
          | Article |         |
          |         |         |
          +---------+---------+

When composing a new email, I want it to become:

          +---------+---------+
          | Summary |         |
          +---------+         |
          |         |   ERC   |
          | Compose |         |
          |         |         |
          +---------+---------+

And with my setting, I get this

          +-------------------+
          |     Summary       |
          +-------------------+
          |                   |
          |     Compose       |
          |                   |
          +-------------------+

My current setting is:

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

   (gnus-add-configuration
    '(message
      (vertical 1.0
           (summary 0.25)
           (message 1.0 point))))

   (setq gnus-use-full-window nil)


In general, I find Gnus always using the full window for server,
compose... buffers which I find annoying.


Thanks
--
Francis