Re: gnus-configure-buffer

[Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>]

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

AM> I have tried and tried. I am unable to understand the manual on
AM> Windows Configuration, though. I can get it to change looks somewhat
AM> but I cannot make I do what I want it to do.
[snip]
AM> How would I do it? Should I instead set some hooks up to make-frame
AM> and delete-frame when I enter/leave message-mode? How would I do that, 
AM> then?

I was just playing with this a little.  message-send-and-exit calls the
list of actions in message-exit-actions.  If you add 'delete-frame to this
list of actions, message will delete the *message* frame after sending off
the message.  (There are several similar lists of message-.*-actions.  Gnus
uses these to return to the correct buffer configuration after the message
is sent.)

One could imagine adding delete-frame to the message-exit-actions in a
buffer-local fashion when opening this "temporary" message frame that
Anders suggests.  I don't know how one does this with
gnus-buffer-configuration.

With frame splits, the ideal situation would be to let one of the splits
actually be a window configuration object.  Then I could do something cool
like 
(gnus-add-configuration '(message 
			  (frame 1.0
				 (current-window-configuration)
				 (vertical ((height . 25) (width . 80)
					    (user-position . t)
					    (left . -1) (top . 1))
					   (message 1.0 point))
				 )))

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