Re: how about a find-library-other-window command?

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:14 +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>
> Let me express more clear what I meant: not each command should test the flag,
> but only a new function `show-buffer' used by these commands.
>
> So for instance having
>
> (defun foo ()
>   (interactive)
>   ...
>   (show-buffer new-buffer))
>
> bound to some key (e.g. `C-c C-f').
>
> Then after typing `C-x 4 C-c C-f', the prefix `C-x 4' will set some
> special variable, and `show-buffer' called by this command will detect it
> and put `this-command' to the user config alist with a flag to reuse this
> user preference next time this command is called without the prefix `C-x 4'.
>
> > Another drawback of this method is you'd have to type C-x 4 C-x C-f.
>
> You have to type `C-x 4 C-x C-f' only once.  After `show-buffer' records the
> fact of calling with the prefix `C-x 4' first time, it will reuse this
> preference on subsequent invocations without the prefix `C-x 4'.

And you have to define a new prefix (C-x what?) to restore the one
window/frame behavior again for this function (each separately) ?

Ehud.


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