Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor

[Bastien]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations.  We have
>> had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
>> beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
>> advantage of them.  Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
>
> Well, we already have `C-x r w R' (window-configuration-to-register)
> and `C-x r f R' (frame-configuration-to-register) for saving window
> configurations, and `C-x r j R' for restoring them.
>
> Though it's true that this could certainly be more user-friendly.

Last month I coded this, which lets you list registers:

  http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/register-list.el

M-x register-list RET creates a list of registers.
Then `W' will list only [W]indow configurations.

Since I use window configurations I find this useful.

(It is also useful to "merge" the content of registers containing strings
and to edit rectangles while taking care of the rectangles width.)

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Bastien