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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [feature request] org-capture-window-setup to stop capture window taking up whole frame
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:22:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lhftw86y.fsf@charm-ecran.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj4ate9f.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:23:56 +0100")

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Hello Eric,

On 2015-06-08 17:23, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> as monitors get bigger and bigger, I tend to have lots of (emacs)
> windows in a frame.  No matter how many I have, org-capture takes over
> the whole frame which is kind of wasteful.

How about using several frames? For instance I have the following code
bound globally in my OS:

#+begin_src sh
/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -n -e '(make-orgcapture-frame)'
#+end_src

The function is defined as follows (with some supporting code to delete
the frame when I'm done):

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun make-orgcapture-frame ()  
  "Create a new frame and run org-capture."  
  (interactive)  
  (make-frame '((name . "remember") (width . 80) (height . 16)
                (top . 400) (left . 300)
                (font . "-*-Consolas-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
                ))
  (select-frame-by-name "remember")
  (delete-other-windows)
  (flet ((switch-to-buffer-other-window (buf) (switch-to-buffer buf)))
    (org-capture nil "t")))

;; delete the frame in that case
(add-hook 'org-capture-after-finalize-hook
          (lambda ()
            (when (equal
                   (cdr (assoc 'name (frame-parameters (selected-frame))))
                   "remember")
              (delete-frame))))
#+end_src

Alan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-08 15:23 [feature request] org-capture-window-setup to stop capture window taking up whole frame Eric S Fraga
2015-06-08 16:37 ` Charles Millar
2015-06-08 16:46   ` Kaushal
2015-06-09  7:31     ` e.fraga
2015-06-17  8:24     ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-17 16:41       ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-06-18  7:57         ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-23 20:31           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-25  8:00             ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-25 12:22               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-08 20:28 ` Thierry Banel
2015-06-09  9:22 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2015-06-09  9:43   ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-18 11:16   ` Xebar Saram
2015-06-18 11:45     ` Alan Schmitt
2015-06-18 11:52       ` Xebar Saram
2015-06-18 14:42         ` Alan Schmitt
     [not found] ` <871thlw193.fsf@gmail.com>
2015-06-09 12:35   ` Bernhard Pröll
2015-06-12  9:27     ` Eric S Fraga

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