From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29537 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reid Rivenburgh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Better handling of reply configuration Date: 15 Mar 2000 15:05:13 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166190 3263 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BE2D051E for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:06:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB20968; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:06:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:05:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13977 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:05:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from c3serve.c3.lanl.gov (c3serve-f0.c3.lanl.gov [128.165.20.100]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264A1D051E for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:05:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from toespaz.c3.lanl.gov (toespaz.c3.lanl.gov [128.165.20.7]) by c3serve.c3.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22966 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:05:14 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (reid@localhost) by toespaz.c3.lanl.gov (8.9.3+Sun/c93112801) id PAA16103; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:05:13 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: toespaz.c3.lanl.gov: reid set sender to reid@lanl.gov using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29537 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29537 One of the few areas where gnus is awkward is the handling of frames/windows when replying to mail. I've looked over the gnus configuration capabilities, but either it doesn't offer quite enough or I'm too ignorant to use it correctly (yes, probably the latter). I also searched in various places and came up basically empty. The problem is that when replying, the reply buffer takes over the frame. If I want to refer back to the original message (if I haven't yanked it into the reply) or look at a different message, I have to go through some buffer switching and resizing contortions. This can be solved by either: 1. Giving the reply its own frame. This would work fine, but I've had a heck of a time getting the frame to go away (delete or iconify) when done and having the original frame be unaffected by the reply creation. It would also be nice for general mail composition, not just replying. 2. Set up a configuration in a single frame such that the reply takes up only a portion of the frame, leaving the summary and article buffers visible (but probably reduced in size). This ought to work, too, but there's a question of what happens to the reply buffer if I quit the summary to look in another group. I tried the following, but I didn't know how the buffer-live-p split form syntax should look (the example in the manual only uses a single form after the if). I think I'm on the right track.... (gnus-add-configuration '(reply (horizontal 1.0 (vertical 20 (if (buffer-live-p gnus-message-buffer) '(list (summary .2) (message 1.0 point)) '((summary .8 point) (tree 1.0)))) (vertical 1.0 (article 1.0))))) I thought I'd throw this out to the list in case anyone has solved the problem. Thanks in advance. Reid