>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> With (at least) emacs 19.28 there is a special variable that
Jack> can be set which allows a buffer to be displayed in a
Jack> separate frame when emacs attempts to display that buffer.
Jack> Here are the docs for special-display-buffer-name. (It does
Jack> work, I just checked.)
I've posted this before, but...
But it does not work with an off-the-shelf copy of BBDB, since BBDB's
calls to get-buffer-window only check if the buffer is displayed in
the current frame. The BBDB sources could be (trivially) changed (in
lots of spots), but I use the following advice (more stuff below the
advice):
(defvar mms-get-buffer-window-broken-packages
(list bbdb-buffer-name)
"*List of buffer names which get-buffer-window is forced to search
for in other frames..")
(require 'advice)
(defadvice get-buffer-window (around mms-get-buffer-window act)
(if (member
(let ((b (ad-get-arg 0))) (if (bufferp b) (buffer-name b) b))
mms-get-buffer-window-broken-packages)
(ad-set-args 1 '(t)))
ad-do-it)
(ad-activate 'get-buffer-window)
Then I set up bbdb-display and add bbdb-buffer-name to
special-display-buffer-names (note that "add-item" is not a standard
emacs function):
(cond (window-system
(require 'bbdb-display)
(add-item 'special-display-buffer-names bbdb-buffer-name)))
Then I fire up an initial BBDB frame...
(let ((bbdb-electric-p nil)
(special-display-frame-alist '((name . "BBDB")
(unsplittable . t)
(menu-bar-lines . 0)
(left . -155)
(top . 0)
(width . 55)
(height . 10))))
(bbdb "." nil))
Hope that helps someone...
peace & happiness,
martin
