lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

If you have not heard about emacs registers, you are missing a very powerful tool in your arsenal. Think of registers as "clipboard" on steroids. I had been using registers to store text -i.e. C-x r s a to copy region into register "a" and C-x r i a to insert text from register "a".

Today, while reading the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup, I came to know that you could save your current (emacs)frames layout to the register and then restore it back again.

• `C-x r w R' Save the state of the selected frame's windows in register R (`window-configuration-to-register').
• `C-x r j R' restore a window or frame configuration stored in register R.

Here is the email where I saw this.

Re: how to keep/restore my view and mode?

• From: David Hansen
• Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
• Subject: Re: how to keep/restore my view and mode?
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:13:58 +0200
• References: <1158816234.643256.254090@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>
• To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
• Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
• List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org>

On 20 Sep 2006 22:23:54 -0700 Leo Hou wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am not sure if I am using the right term of "view" and "mode". My
> problem is as follows:
>
> I am using C-x 3 and "follow-mode" to view my source code. Every time I
> compile, the other column becomes the result of make. I need to use a
> lot of keys to switch it back to normal: C-x o; C-x k; C-x o; M-x
> follow-mode
> Is there a better way?

C-x r w <some letter or number> to store a window layout and
C-x r j <the same number or letter> to restore it. And there
is no need to kill the compilation buffer.  It gets reused
anyway.

David