[O] naming and/or directly addressing particular windows?
Hi, After the recent conversation about Scrivener (on help-gnu-emacs) I thought the very first step would be to write a simple function that would create a window layout and populate the windows with a set of buffers, then set mjor and minor modes for some of hte buffers. (After that I guess I will have to figure out how to write some very simple minor modes, or at least some functions that allow e.g. direct editing of org-mode properties on a selected node.) So, what I have so far is quite trivial but doesn't seem to work exactly as I expected: (delete-other-windows) (split-window-horizontally) (windmove-right) (split-window-horizontally) (enlarge-window-horizontally 20) (windmove-right) (split-window-vertically) Anyway presumably I'll fiddle with this and eventually it will work, but something better would be (set-window-name outline) (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window outline main) (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window main metadata) (set-width-named-window main 60) and then write a function, bound to say Ctrl-Enter, open-node-as-indirect-buffer-in-named-window Anyway: is it possible to give/get a name for a window that persists long enough to be called in functions? Thanks, Matt
Re: [O] naming and/or directly addressing particular windows?
Anyway: is it possible to give/get a name for a window that persists long enough to be called in functions? This might help: (defun icicle-make-window-alist (optional all-p) Return an alist of entries (WNAME . WINDOW), where WNAME names WINDOW. The name of the buffer in a window is used as its name, unless there is more than one window displaying the same buffer. In that case, WNAME includes a suffix [NUMBER], to make it a unique name. The NUMBER order among window names that differ only by their [NUMBER] is arbitrary. Non-nil argument ALL-P means use windows from all visible frames. Otherwise, use only windows from the selected frame. (lexical-let ((win-alist ()) (count 2) wname new-name) (walk-windows (lambda (w) (setq wname (buffer-name (window-buffer w))) (if (not (assoc wname win-alist)) (push (cons wname w) win-alist) (setq new-name wname) (while (assoc new-name win-alist) (setq new-name (format %s[%d] wname count) count (1+ count))) (push (cons new-name w) win-alist)) (setq count 2)) 'no-mini (if all-p 'visible 'this-frame)) win-alist)) (This is used in command `icicle-select-window-by-name', which in turn is the action function for multi-command `icicle-select-window'. Code here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/icicles-cmd1.el.) I'm guessing that there are other, similar functions available on Emacs Wiki - start here, perhaps: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWindows
Re: [O] naming and/or directly addressing particular windows?
Hi Matt, if you are considering using a little language to create window configurations then maybe you will find this interesting: http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-multiwindow-intro.html http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-multiwindow.el.html Cheers! Eduardo Ochs eduardoo...@gmail.com http://angg.twu.net/#eev On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After the recent conversation about Scrivener (on help-gnu-emacs) I thought the very first step would be to write a simple function that would create a window layout and populate the windows with a set of buffers, then set mjor and minor modes for some of hte buffers. (After that I guess I will have to figure out how to write some very simple minor modes, or at least some functions that allow e.g. direct editing of org-mode properties on a selected node.) So, what I have so far is quite trivial but doesn't seem to work exactly as I expected: (delete-other-windows) (split-window-horizontally) (windmove-right) (split-window-horizontally) (enlarge-window-horizontally 20) (windmove-right) (split-window-vertically) Anyway presumably I'll fiddle with this and eventually it will work, but something better would be (set-window-name outline) (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window outline main) (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window main metadata) (set-width-named-window main 60) and then write a function, bound to say Ctrl-Enter, open-node-as-indirect-buffer-in-named-window Anyway: is it possible to give/get a name for a window that persists long enough to be called in functions? Thanks, Matt
Re: [O] naming and/or directly addressing particular windows?
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eduardo Ochs eduardoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, if you are considering using a little language to create window configurations then maybe you will find this interesting: http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-multiwindow-intro.html http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-multiwindow.el.html totally interesting, somewhat opaque to me so far but i will keep trying to understand! Thanks, matt
Re: [O] naming and/or directly addressing particular windows?
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Drew Adams drew.ad...@oracle.com wrote: Anyway: is it possible to give/get a name for a window that persists long enough to be called in functions? This might help: (defun icicle-make-window-alist (optional all-p) Return an alist of entries (WNAME . WINDOW), where WNAME names WINDOW. The name of the buffer in a window is used as its name, unless there is more than one window displaying the same buffer. In that case, WNAME includes a suffix [NUMBER], to make it a unique name. The NUMBER order among window names that differ only by their [NUMBER] is arbitrary. Non-nil argument ALL-P means use windows from all visible frames. Otherwise, use only windows from the selected frame. (lexical-let ((win-alist ()) (count 2) wname new-name) (walk-windows (lambda (w) (setq wname (buffer-name (window-buffer w))) (if (not (assoc wname win-alist)) (push (cons wname w) win-alist) (setq new-name wname) (while (assoc new-name win-alist) (setq new-name (format %s[%d] wname count) count (1+ count))) (push (cons new-name w) win-alist)) (setq count 2)) 'no-mini (if all-p 'visible 'this-frame)) win-alist)) (This is used in command `icicle-select-window-by-name', which in turn is the action function for multi-command `icicle-select-window'. Code here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/icicles-cmd1.el.) I'm guessing that there are other, similar functions available on Emacs Wiki - start here, perhaps: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWindows I'm slowly starting to understand. I now have this primitive code, which at least sets up the windows the way I want them: (defun my-windows-function () Trying to figure out how to get a nice windows config for writers-room-mode (interactive ) (global-linum-mode 0) (delete-other-windows) (setq my-this-win (selected-window)) (setq my-winlist '()) (add-to-list 'my-winlist (cons 'guide (selected-window)) ) (split-window-horizontally) (fix-window-horizontal-size 35) (windmove-right) (add-to-list 'my-winlist (cons 'main (selected-window)) ) (split-window-horizontally) (windmove-right) (fix-window-horizontal-size 35) (add-to-list 'my-winlist (cons 'metadata (selected-window)) ) (split-window-vertically) (windmove-down) (add-to-list 'my-winlist (cons 'not-sure-what-this-is-for (selected-window)) ) (select-window(cdr(assoc 'guide my-winlist)) ) ) The final select-window ommand demonstrates that I can now address the windows by name (yay!). The next step for me is to rewrite the existing org-tree-to-indirect-buffer function so that it reliably sends org subtree indirect buffers to the main window (in the middle column of the frame). The function starts at line 7091 of org.el: http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git/blob/lisp/org.el I'm not having an easy time figuring out how that function decides which window to use when creating and focussing on the new indirect buffer. I can see (and the documentation states) that a choice is first made between using a new or dedicated frame, or the same frame with either the original or another window. But the code to put the buffer in another window in the same frame is quite simple: ((eq org-indirect-buffer-display 'other-window) (pop-to-buffer ibuf)) I've been chasing the code down to native emacs functions -- pop-to-buffer ends up relying on display-buffer -- but I haven't yet found a place where I an specify a particular window for the new buffer. Does anyone else know a way? Thanks again, Matt
