CEDET

Hi,

Speedbar doesn't have that ability because there weren't enough features 
in Emacs to make it easy to do.  There might be enough now, but I don't 
think anyone has looked into it lately.

The ECB package took on that challenge, and has advised a lot of core 
Emacs functions that allows it to work well within the same frame.  ECB 
has similar features to speedbar, and also allows embedding a speedbar 
window into a frame.  See the ecb.sf.net site for details.

ECB hasn't been updated in a while, but there is a branch discussed on 
the mailing list where you can get a more recent fixed up version for 
newer versions of Emacs.

Eric

On 06/30/2012 08:28 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since CEDET is the Speedbar upstream, I thought I address my question to
> the semantic list. If this is the wrong place, please feel free to point
> me to the right one.
>
> Now to my question, is it possible to configure speedbar to show in the
> same frame? Often I work on a tiny ThinkPad, having fewer GUI windows
> (Emacs frames) helps a lot.
>
> I know about sr-speedbar.el on Emacswik; it doesn't help since other
> libraries like using speedbar (e.g. semantic) are not aware of it. Also
> there seems to be a bug which generates a backtrace when I try to close
> an sr-speedbar window (haven't tested extensively though).
>
> If this is currently not possible, would be a worthwhile feature
> request?
>
> Thanks,
>

Hi Eric,

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Eric M. Ludlam <ericludlam@...> wrote:
> ECB hasn't been updated in a while, but there is a branch discussed on
> the mailing list where you can get a more recent fixed up version for
> newer versions of Emacs.

Thanks a lot for the comments. It is a little disappointing for me since
I'm a lisp newbie. In any case, I believe I found the right file in ECB:
ecb-speedbar.el. I'll take a closer look there.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

On 07/01/2012 06:18 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Eric M. Ludlam<ericludlam@...>  wrote:
>> ECB hasn't been updated in a while, but there is a branch discussed on
>> the mailing list where you can get a more recent fixed up version for
>> newer versions of Emacs.
> Thanks a lot for the comments. It is a little disappointing for me since
> I'm a lisp newbie. In any case, I believe I found the right file in ECB:
> ecb-speedbar.el. I'll take a closer look there.
>

You won't get too far with just ecb-speedbar.  It depends on the rest of 
ECB to do the in-frame hosting of a buffer.  ECB has to be taken as a 
whole.  It can be configured easily enough to just show the speedbar 
frame as far as I understand it which could get you what you want.

Eric

Hi Eric,

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Eric Ludlam <ericludlam@...> wrote:
> You won't get too far with just ecb-speedbar.  It depends on the rest of ECB
> to do the in-frame hosting of a buffer.  ECB has to be taken as a whole.  It
> can be configured easily enough to just show the speedbar frame as far as I
> understand it which could get you what you want.

Thanks a lot for correcting me before I went off on my investigation.
I'll see if I can work up a solution that works for me.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.