Re: Preserving window layout?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Fri, Sep 21 2012, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:

> On 2012-09-20, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>> I think you can try to hack some Elisp code with use of:
>>
>>   (setq my-window-conf (current-window-configuration))
>>   (gnus)
>>   (set-window-configuration my-window-conf)  ;; restore window layout and
>>                                              ;; selected buffers
>>
>>   
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Window-Configurations.html
>>
>> I think that it is you want but I don't how integrate this code with gnus and
>> your preferences...
>>
>> Try searching on emacswiki by set-window-configuration keyword...
>
> Quotation from 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2572950/preserve-window-layout-in-emacs/2575269#2575269
>
>   I sometimes still use C-x r w <register> to store a window configuration in
>   a register, and C-x r j <register> (where <register> is a single character)
>   to jump back to it.
>
> I learn Emacs with you ))

I also just use multiple frames (I use stumpwm, so using emacs as a
fullblown window manager seemed redundant), but this is a really nice
tip, thanks.

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