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Re: Emacs shell and frames
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Galen Boyer |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs shell and frames |
Date: |
17 Feb 2003 09:32:21 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
On 16 Feb 2003, Robert@Knighten.org wrote:
>
> The emacs 'shell' command has the nice feature that if the shell
> buffer already exists it is reused, including simply switching to the
> buffer if the shell process is also running. I prefer to use a
> separate FRAME for this purpose. Do any of you have a version of the
> 'shell' command that will reuse an existing shell frame in much the
> same manner as is now done with the shell buffer?
I cut a sample of the buffers I use this for. I should be obvious by
the parameter's names how to customize to your own preferences. The
main thing is that if you open a new shell window, it opens in a new
frame. If you C-x b *shell*, that frame pops up.
(setq special-display-buffer-names
'(("*info*"
(top . 5)
(left . 100)
(width . 90)
(height . 55)
(background-color . "gray85")
(font . "-outline-Courier
New-normal-r-normal-normal-11-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
(menu-bar-lines . 0))
("*shell*"
(top . 5)
(left . -75)
(width . 80)
(height . 50)
(menu-bar-lines . 0)
(font . "-outline-Courier
New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
(foreground-color . "black")
(background-color . "snow"))
("*Help*"
(top . 5)
(left . -75)
(width . 80)
(height . 50)
(menu-bar-lines . 0)
(font . "-outline-Courier
New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-15")
(foreground-color . "black")
(background-color . "light steel blue"))
))
--
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.