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From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserving window layout?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:20:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjactsa3.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2txus229j.fsf@polytechnique.org>

On 2012-09-20, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> I'm trying to work in a single Emacs frame, split in several windows,
> but this does not work well with gnus. Reading the documentation, I see
> that there is an option to prevent gnus from taking over the frame
> (http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_288.html), but its use is discouraged.
>
> Hence my question: has anyone found a way to use gnus without losing an
> existing windows layout? I saw some discussion on emacswiki
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneWindow) and I'm wondering if there
> are other tricks that I may have missed.
>
I suggest dumb solution:

  M-x new-frame RET M-x gnus RET

If you have nice windows manager with cool select windows application you easy
switch between main Emacs frame and Gnus one...

Really I use at most only 2 Emacs windows. For fast navigation I use saved
points in registers and iswitchb-mode.

I think you can try to hack some Elisp code with use of:

  (setq my-window-conf (current-window-configuration))
  (gnus)
  (set-window-configuration my-window-conf)  ;; restore window layout and
                                             ;; selected buffers

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Window-Configurations.html

I think that it is you want but I don't how integrate this code with gnus and
your preferences...

Try searching on emacswiki by set-window-configuration keyword...

-- 
Best regards!

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20 14:32 Alan Schmitt
2012-09-20 19:20 ` Oleksandr Gavenko [this message]
2012-09-20 19:36   ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-09-21  1:59     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-09-21  6:28     ` Alan Schmitt
2012-09-21  6:25   ` Alan Schmitt
2012-09-22 23:18 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-09-24  6:38   ` Alan Schmitt
2012-09-27 21:49 ` Angel de Vicente
2012-10-01 17:50   ` Alan Schmitt

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