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Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame
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Vaidheeswaran C |
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Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame |
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Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:48:07 +0530 |
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On Saturday 18 July 2015 08:51 AM, Hikaru Ichijyo wrote:
> A newbie question (getting more hooked on Emacs):
>
> I often run ERC to connect to IM services via a local Bitlbee daemon.
> It works best running in its own frame, so I know when people are
> talking to me without having to flip through all my buffers. (A window
> doesn't seem to be sufficient, since Gnus keeps changing the window
> layout to its Summary/Article split, and the only way I've found to deal
> with that is to keep programs whose layout I care about in separate
> frames.)
>
> Anyway, it's redundant to have to manually put ERC in its own frame
> every time I launch it.
>
> I have somethink like this bound to a key:
>
> (erc :server "localhost")
>
> Some programs have the ability to launch in a new frame built into them,
> but shouldn't you be able to do that with almost any program? If I
> wanted to run the above in an 80x24 frame at a particular X coordinate,
> how would I say that in Elisp?
>
To add to my other response
M-x customize-group erc
gives me hints on where I should be looking.
Show Value Erc Join Buffer
Determines how to display a newly created IRC buffer. More
Show Value Erc Reuse Buffers
If nil, create new buffers on joining a channel/query. More
Just those two custom variables is probably what you need.
- launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Hikaru Ichijyo, 2015/07/17
- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Vaidheeswaran C, 2015/07/18
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- RE: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Drew Adams, 2015/07/18
- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Emanuel Berg, 2015/07/18
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- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Hikaru Ichijyo, 2015/07/18
- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/07/18
- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/07/18
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- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Hikaru Ichijyo, 2015/07/18
- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Emanuel Berg, 2015/07/18
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- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Hikaru Ichijyo, 2015/07/18
- RE: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Drew Adams, 2015/07/18
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- Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame, Hikaru Ichijyo, 2015/07/18