[OS X Emacs] Dynamic window positioning in Aquamacs

[Adrian]

"Roll your own" is definitely not what I was hoping to hear :-(.  I have no
knowledge of lisp nor any desire to learn for the sole sake of implementing
behaviour that Emacs should support by default.  If I were good enough to
edit the source, I would have abolished the infernal scratch buffer long
ago.
Smart positioning seems to be confusing the window positioning whether it is
turned on or off.  Even when it is turned off, I have to specify both
"default-" and "initial-frame-alist" parameters for my specifications to
take any effect.  Shouldn't I be able to specify these parameters
separately?

Unless anyone else has any suggestions, I'm going to have to relegate this
to the "recurring annoyances" category as I don't have the time to fully
debug it right now.

BTW, if anyone has any suggestions for a hack whereby I never have to see
the scratch buffer again, I would greatly appreciate it.  Perhaps this is a
subject for another post though...

Adrian

2008/10/10 David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>

> On 10 Oct 2008, at 12:42, Adrian wrote:
>
>  I'm trying to configure Aquamacs so that new windows (aka emacs "frames")
>> will pop up in a tiled fashion.  I know Aquamacs has a tiling option, but I
>> don't want the Aquamacs windows to use the entire screen and I don't want to
>> have to retile every time I open another window.  Basically, I want to be
>> able to specify the default position of windows without having all
>> subsequent windows open in the exact same location.
>>
>
> I don't know if your code can achieve what you want, but you're probably
> best off modifying (redefining) the function `find-good-frame-position' (see
> smart-frame-positioning.el).
> That'll give you the best access, and you can reuse the remaining
> smart-frame-positioning infrastructure.  And if you come up with good code,
> we can even integrate it in Aquamacs.
>
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