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RE: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: limiting special buffers to dedicated frames |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2010 15:16:27 -0700 |
> I'd like to have dedicated emacs frames for special buffers.
>
> Let's say all *info* and help buffers always opening in a special
> "Help" frame with predefined geometry.
>
> Switching to these buffers should also raise these frames.
> Think of how other Applications show helpcontent on F1, they raise
> another (X-) window.
>
> I was trying
> (setq special-display-buffer-names
> '("*info*"))
> but without success...
I do exactly that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneOnOneEmacs.
If you don't like exactly the same thing out-of-the-box, looking at the code
might nevertheless help you get what you want.