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Re: Window configurations


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Window configurations
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 01:54:35 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Aside from that it is really trivial to specify any reasonably complex
> layouts as simple lisp structure, with sizes in percent, similar to say
> framesets in html:
>
> (setq my-layout '(
>      (div-v
>       (30 div-h
>           (75 top-window-1)
>           (25 top-window-2)
>           )
>       (55 div-h
>           (25 div-v
>               (50 sidebar-1)
>               (25 sidebar-2)
>               (25 sidebar-3)
>               )
>           (75 edit-area)
>           )
>       (15 tool-window)
>       )))

HTML framesets use the `rows' and `cols' attributes to split the screen
vertically and horizontally into frames (Emacs windows).

The above window configuration could be defined by HTML framesets as:

<FRAMESET rows="30%, 55%, 15%">
  <FRAMESET cols="75%, 25%">
    <FRAME src="top-window-1">
    <FRAME src="top-window-2">
  </FRAMESET>
  <FRAMESET cols="25%, 75%">
    <FRAMESET rows="50%, 25%, 25%">
      <FRAME src="sidebar-1">
      <FRAME src="sidebar-2">
      <FRAME src="sidebar-3">
    </FRAMESET>
    <FRAME src="edit-area">
  </FRAMESET>
  <FRAME src="tool-window">
</FRAMESET>

> That simple thing would be a pretty detailed layout already suited for
> almost all purposes (except GUD perhaps).

What's the problem with GUD?

> For that of course you need a second set of preferences, that is what
> buffer show in what pane:  For example,  *messages*, *compilation*,
> *completion*, etc.  can be assigned to "tool-window", *speedbar* to
> sidebar-1, *help* on "top-1", files and such to "edit-area", and so on ...

IOW, to "dedicate" a window to a buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/



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