Re: Different emacs arrangements in one session

[Dan Espen]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>   I use Emacs primarily for development over SSH into a remote server. I
> generally have several terminal sessions, many buffers of code, etc.  Often
> times, I want the window arrangement for my ansi-term buffers to be
> different than my code buffers.
>
> For example, Perhaps, I have my code buffers split into quarters, and then
> I want to switch to one of my ansi-terms to compile the code. As it stands
> now, that ansi-term will just take up one of my quarter screens, when I
> want this to be my full screen.
>
> Any idea how to do this? I've looked at frames, but it doesn't seem to
> quite work right?
>
> It should be noted, that on the remote server, I generally do emacs
> --daemon and then emacsclient -c -nw
>
> this way, my environment persists across different logins.
>
> Any idea how I can accomplish the above?

No not really.

But switching to a terminal session to do a compile might not be the
best way to use Emacs.  I do all my work in a similar ssh'd Emacs
and save huge amounts of time driving all my compiling _and testing_
using M-x compile.

There are a lot of benefits to working this way.
You'll never compile without saving your file first,
Emacs can use the compiler messages to access lines in error,
and if multiple files need compiling before a test
the makefile takes care of all that.

Oh, also, the window configuration is managed by M-x compile.

-- 
Dan Espen