Re: Preserving window layout?

[Alan Schmitt]

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2012-09-20, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to work in a single Emacs frame, split in several windows,
>> but this does not work well with gnus. Reading the documentation, I see
>> that there is an option to prevent gnus from taking over the frame
>> (http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_288.html), but its use is discouraged.
>>
>> Hence my question: has anyone found a way to use gnus without losing an
>> existing windows layout? I saw some discussion on emacswiki
>> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneWindow) and I'm wondering if there
>> are other tricks that I may have missed.
>>
> I suggest dumb solution:
>
>   M-x new-frame RET M-x gnus RET
>
> If you have nice windows manager with cool select windows application you easy
> switch between main Emacs frame and Gnus one...

Unfortunately my window manager is not so nice (I'm on OS X).

> Really I use at most only 2 Emacs windows. For fast navigation I use saved
> points in registers and iswitchb-mode.
>
> 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...

Interesting tip, thanks a lot!

Alan