Re: gnus operation unsplit windows

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

walter.franzini@sys-net.it writes:

> I'm running gnus-5.10.6 on Debian Sarge and I'm trying to work with
> 2 windows, 1 for gnus and 1 for other stuff.
>
>>From the Summary buffer I split the screen with C-x 2, then hitting
> M-g make the second window disappear.  This also happen from the group
> buffer.
>
> Is this behavior correct?

Gnus tends to like to believe that it controls the entire frame it's
running in, so if you select a group from a half-frame group buffer
you'll typically wind up in a full-frame summary buffer.

> Can gnus be customized to behave as I'd like?

Maybe...see `gnus-add-configuration' and friends.  You could possibly
make this work if you were sure that you always wanted Gnus to use
half a frame.  You might try making two frames instead; and once
you've gone that far, you might be happier with two Emacsen so that
one isn't blocking on the other's fetching mail.  (Eight Megabytes,
even twice, doesn't add up to Constantly Swapping on today's hardware;
Emacs just hasn't kept up with system memory growth.  Very sad.)

  --dzm