[slime-devel] Re: Hyperspec lookups with w3m in Slime

[Björn Lindberg]

Michael Weber <michaelw+slime at foldr.org> writes:

> * Jan Rychter <jan at rychter.com> [2004-07-15T23:36-0700]:
> > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Triggs <mark at dishevelled.net> writes:
> >  Mark> d95-bli at nada.kth.se (Björn Lindberg) writes:
> >  >> I would much prefer if the behaviour was closer to the one for C-c
> >  >> C-d C-d, where the description pops up in another window, and an
> >  >> effort is made upon exit to restore the windows to what they were
> >  >> before.
> > 
> >  Mark> I've had the following fragment in my ~/.emacs for a while 
> 
> Setting w3m-pop-up-frames to t works for me, though it does not have
> exactly the same effect Jan describes: it creates a new (and then
> reused) frame for w3m buffers, so emacs does not touch the window
> configuration of the frame which I program in.  Placing the new frame
> conveniently is done by my window-manager.

Thanks for all who responded. Still, neither of the suggestions seem
to do what I want. Michaels suggestion above does not work for me,
since I do not want to devote a whole frame or window just for w3m. I
tried both Marks and Jans suggestions briefly, and neither actually
seemed that different from how w3m behaves originally on my
system. Perhaps we are working in different ways.

The two key things for me are, first that I would like w3m to pop up
in a window (or frame) /other/ than the one I am in when I am invoking
the Hyperspec lookup, so that I can read the HS entry and still see
what I was working on. Secondly, I would like the window configuration
to be restored once I press "q" when in w3m. I have not noticed this
to be too much of a problem so far in the regular case, but I imagine
that a smarter initiating function would necessitate more work for
this too. It seems that Marks and Jans solutions are mostly for
dealing with this last issue.

At least I now got some elisp code specific to the problem to work
with, and I'll see if I can work something out. In case I
misunderstood any of the solutions I am hapy to be corrected.


Björn