Add shell-pop-full-span to get a wide terminal

[popoppo]

Let me suggest 'shell-pop-full-span' as a new function.
It allows you to pop up a terminal which has the same width as your Emacs window.

I know it can also be done with 'full' mode,
but in many cases, I want to watch other frames while I'm using a terminal.

shell-pop-full-span is enabled with only adding a following line into your .emacs .

(setq shell-pop-full-span t)

What do you think about it?
Thank you for your consideration.

[kyagi]

Thank you for your suggestion. It's an interesting idea. I suppose you are thinking about having another terminal assuming the environment where X Window System runs.

I can show you below a quick and easy way to run another terminal from Emacs on Mac. (Sorry, I don't have any Linux environment now, but you can use start-process-shell-command or start-process function to invoke a program from Emacs.)

(defun quick-and-easy-way-to-run-another-terminal-on-mac ()
  (interactive)
  (start-process-shell-command "anotherTerminal" nil
    "open" "-n" "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"))

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get the width and height of running applications on Mac yet, but I'm sure that the option is provided on X Window System in Linux environment. So, if we follow this way, I think that we can implement that expected function.

However, I'm afraid if this implementation would eventually fall into the traditional "kitchen sink" approach, against the Unix philosophy as "small but doing one thing well" way that I prefer to. It might be better to confine this hack to individual usage, I mean, on your .emacs only, if possible.

All the above is my opinion. Let me listen to other developers' ideas. Yoshida-san(@syohex), what do you think about this extension?

[kyagi]

Sorry! I totally overlooked your commit. I mistook this for just a suggestion without code. Let me look at diff attached.

[kyagi]

Let me check if I can understand your suggestion correctly. You would like to watch other frames while you are using a terminal on Emacs with shell-pop, would'nt you?

I wonder why I couldn't find the function that will create a new frame in your diff. I suppose there should be some functions like this:

(make-frame default-frame-alist)

Let me know if I got it wrong.

[syohex]

@kyagi Looks good to me and this is useful feature.

And I suppose @popoppo uses word frame as Emacs window.
(Emacs terms about window and frame are little complicated for users)

[kyagi]

I now know what we are discussing. Sorry for my missing it.

shell-pop runs with multiple windows when (setq shell-pop-full-span nil)

shell-pop runs with multiple windows when (setq shell-pop-full-span t)

[kyagi]

Yes, I agree that it is an useful feature. For users who always have multiple Emacs windows like the above, shell-pop should work in this way. Also, I've confirmed it worked well when Emacs has multiple vertical and horizontal windows. @popoppo, Thank you for this great contribution. 😄 👍

[popoppo]

@kyagi, @syohex
Thanks for your review, and sorry for my late reply.

And I suppose @popoppo uses word frame as Emacs window.

@syohex is absolutely right, and my use of some words was wrong.
I'm sorry for making you confused.

Thank you for this great contribution

My pleasure!! Thank you @kyagi.