Re: New features in windowing

[martin rudalics]

>>> I am playing with the new features in windows (as in emacs). I found
>>> some window-parameters aren't documented such as window-side and
>>> window-atom.
>> Hopefully they will make it into Emacs 24.2.
>
> Do you mean those features are yet to be implemented? BTW, they were
> mentioned in the elisp info file.

The features that have to be re-implemented are the routines to set up
the windows.  Currently, you have to do that manually which works for
cases like the one you describe but I want to handle multiple side
windows on each frame.

> Let me use this for illustration:
>           ______________________________________
>          | ______  ____________________________ |
>          ||      || __________________________ ||
>          ||      |||                          |||
>          ||      |||                          |||
>          ||      |||                          |||
>          ||      |||____________W4____________|||
>          ||      || __________________________ ||
>          ||      |||                          |||
>          ||      |||                          |||
>          ||      |||____________W5____________|||
>          ||__W2__||_____________W3_____________ |
>          |__________________W1__________________|
>
>
> If I put speedbar buffer in W2, I want those window operations to think
> as if W3 is the ``frame root window''. So for example, C-x 1 should not
> delete W2. C-x 0 should never have W2 occupy the whole frame.
>
> Is this currently possible?

That's precisely what "making W2 a left side window" would stand for.

> Unfortunately that would mean difficulty to try it out but I guess I can
> wait until 24.1 is released.

I attach a simple file you can load from your .emacs.  You then should
be able to create W2 via something like

(display-buffer
 "SPEEDBAR"
 '(display-buffer-in-side-window (side . left) (slot . 0)))

and tell me how it works.  The sooner I get your feedback the sooner I
will be able to adapt the concept appropriately.

martin

display-buffer.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp