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martin rudalics |
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Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:33:02 +0200 |
>> It would be nice to have some sort of basic, prefabricated layouts
>> like the ones you sketched and choose from them (though a four window
>> layout with a different window in each corner of them frame would
>> still require to know whether the root window is a vertical or
>> horizontal combination). But I have no good idea yet which layout
>> types are really needed and how to provide a suitable interface for
>> accessing them. IIRC the "Emacs IDE" had provisions for them but I
>> have not heard from its developers for years.
>
> I thought this is what side windows are for? Maybe it would be tricky to
> save and restore whole-frame window configurations (though there are
> other tools for that), but side windows, combined perhaps with atomic
> windows, seem like the right tool for making rectangular compositions.
> The docs even say something about making Emacs look like a traditional
> IDE, etc...
The intention of side windows was to provide a framework for ECB (the
Emacs Code Browser) to embed such layouts without the need to advice
basic window functions. Unfortunately, work on ECB seems to have
stalled a decade ago and nobody seems very interested in continuing
it.
martin
- customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Roland Winkler, 2018/09/11
- Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/11
- Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, N. Jackson, 2018/09/12
- Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/12
- Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, N. Jackson, 2018/09/12
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, martin rudalics, 2018/09/13
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, N. Jackson, 2018/09/13
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, martin rudalics, 2018/09/14
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/13
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/14
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, martin rudalics, 2018/09/15
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Roland Winkler, 2018/09/14
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, martin rudalics, 2018/09/14
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/14
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Roland Winkler, 2018/09/15
- RE: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Drew Adams, 2018/09/15
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, martin rudalics, 2018/09/15
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Roland Winkler, 2018/09/15
- Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/15