[Feature request] open editserver popup buffer for EXWM
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Sorry if this comes off a little vague. I actually meant to make this issue a few months ago, but I made a little hack that fixed my problem, and I just got lazy.
So the issue here is that edit server, depending on whether edit-server-new-frame is toggled, will open the edit-server buffer in a new frame or the same buffer you're currently in. The former is excellent if you're using a floating WM, like most GNU Emacs users are, and the latter is useful if you're using a tiling WM, because Emacs will probably pop up in an already-opened Emacs instance, which is great, but it's very cumbersome if you're using EXWM, since edit-server will always open up in the very same buffer you have your browser in.
I guess to clarify if you don't know what EXWM is, it's a window manager written for Emacs that will embed X windows into Emacs like they're Emacs buffers, so when you open edit-server via Firefox or Chromium, edit-server will always get in the way of your browser buffer.
My solution was this: I redefined edit-server-done and commented out ((unless edit-server-new-frame (delete-window)), and edit-server would open on the other buffer I have open. Simple but obviously not in good taste and part of the reason I regrettably have never showed off edit-server to any of my other EXWM-using friends.
So it would be wonderful to have a behaviour that opens edit-server in a buffer to the right or left and restore the previous window arrangement upon closing. Another idea is to split the window vertically.
I use exwm with Firefox and edit-server opens a new buffer
in a new window for me.
Are you sure edit-server-new-frame is set to nil?
Maybe we have some other different settings somewhere?
But closing the edit-server buffer leaves the window open,
so that's not too nice.
I didn't bother trying to fix it as @stsquad himself
blogged about the Emacs package atomic-chrome which
I would like to use with GhostText
for Firefox, but that doesn't allow invocation via
Keybinding yet.
Certainly edit-server-new-frame to nil works for me. It is problematic if there is no frame currently visible though. The editing (emacs) window is displayed via pop-to-buffer which can be customised via the various display-buffer customisations.
Thank you stsquad and dakra. As you suggested, edit-server is dictated by pop-to-buffer, so I was able to make the buffer pop up by setting split-height-threshold to nil.
I realized after I made the issue that what I was actually trying to do by removing ((unless edit-server-new-frame (delete-window)) was telling edit server not to destroy that window upon closing, which makes me feel very silly.