Frame Configuration
Frames and Windows
Frame Configuration
Frames and Windows
Window configurations allow you to specify how the windows within
a frame should look for a particular command or class of
commands. Each command can have a configuration associated with
it and you can also associate a configuration with command
classes like ``reading-message'' or ``composing-message''. To
setup a window configuration, first use Emacs' window management
commands (split-window, enlarge-window, etc.) to make the
windows in the frame look the way you want. Then use the
switch-to-buffer command to put the buffers you want to see into
the windows. Next type W S, which invokes the
vm-save-window-configuration command. Type the name of the
command or class of commands to which you want the configuration
to apply. Nearly all VM commands can be entered here. Valid
classes are:
When a VM command is executed, window configurations are searched
for as follows. First, a command specific configuration is
searched for. If one is found, it is used. Next a class
configuration is searched for. Not all commands are in command
classes. Message composition commands are in the
``composing-message'' class. All the vm-quit command are in the
``quitting'' class. All the VM commands that set and clear
message marks are in the ``marking-message'' class. And so on.
If such a class configuration is found it is used. If no
matching class configuration is found, the ``default'' class
configuration is used, if it is defined.
Note that when a window configuration is saved the selected
window at that time will be the selected window when that window
configuration is used. So if you prefer for the cursor to be in
a particular window, make sure you invoke
vm-save-window-configuration window from that window. Remember
that you can invoke the command with M-x if VM's normal
keymap is not in effect.
To delete a window configuration, use W D which is bound to
vm-delete-window-configuration. You will be prompted for the
name of the configuration to delete.
To see what an existing configuration looks like, type W W
which invokes vm-apply-window-configuration.
VM saves information about your window configurations in the file
named by the variable vm-window-configuration-file. The default
location of the configuration file is `"~/.vm.windows"'.
Do not make vm-window-configuration-file point to the same
location as vm-init-file, as the window configuration save
commands will then overwrite the content of your init file.
Frame Configuration
Frames and Windows