Announcements and discussions for Gnus, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserving window layout?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:49:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yeg626zqgq4.fsf@carro.ll.iac.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2txus229j.fsf@polytechnique.org>

Hi,

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 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.

if you are happy running emacs only in text mode, then you can do like
me: I run Emacs in text mode (emacs -nw), inside GNU screen (well,
actually Byobu), so wherever I am, I only need to connect through ssh to
my workstation, and I have full control and exactly the same
configuration everywhere.

Inside screen I have different shells and in all of them I run
emacsclient, so all of them are connecting to the same Emacs server but
each of them have different windows configurations. Works very well for
me: at work I can even open another terminal (I have two monitors),
connect to Byobu, and have both of them sharing the same Emacs (so I can
see Gnus in one of them and something else in the other one at the same
time). Then when I get home I have exactly the same environment. If you
don't need X, this works great! (I tried the register approach at some
point, but compared to this it was awful, IMO).

Cheers,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com/


_______________________________________________
info-gnus-english mailing list
info-gnus-english@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 21:49 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
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 [this message]
2012-10-01 17:50   ` Alan Schmitt

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=yeg626zqgq4.fsf@carro.ll.iac.es \
    --to=angelv@iac.es \
    --cc=info-gnus-english@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).