Hi Matt,

if you are considering using a little language to create window
configurations
then maybe you will find this interesting:

  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-multiwindow-intro.html
  http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-multiwindow.el.html

Cheers!
  Eduardo Ochs
  eduardoochs@gmail.com
  http://angg.twu.net/#eev



On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After the recent conversation about Scrivener (on help-gnu-emacs) I
> thought the very first step would be to write a simple function that
> would create a window layout and populate the windows with a set of
> buffers, then set mjor and minor modes for some of hte buffers.
> (After that I guess I will have to figure out how to write some very
> simple minor modes, or at least some functions that allow e.g. direct
> editing of org-mode properties on a selected node.)
>
> So, what I have so far is quite trivial but doesn't seem to work
> exactly as I expected:
>
> (delete-other-windows)
> (split-window-horizontally)
> (windmove-right)
> (split-window-horizontally)
> (enlarge-window-horizontally 20)
> (windmove-right)
> (split-window-vertically)
>
>
> Anyway presumably I'll fiddle with this and eventually it will work,
> but something better would be
>
> (set-window-name "outline")
> (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window "outline"
> "main")
> (split-named-window-horizontally-and-name-the-other-window "main"
> "metadata")
> (set-width-named-window "main" 60)
>
> and then write a function, bound to say Ctrl-Enter,
>
> open-node-as-indirect-buffer-in-named-window
>
> Anyway:  is it possible to give/get a name for a window that persists
> long enough to be called in functions?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>