mega-zone

A wrapper for zone that will effect your other frames and windows as well as the one with focus.

Another quick lunchtime (and some evening and other fiddles) hack where the instructions look something like this:

;; Load it
(require 'mega-zone)

;; Turn it on
(mega-zone-setup t)

;; Start it off
M-x zone

It has three modes by default controlled by settings to the mega-zone-dispatch-action variable, there's

• show-mz-buffer (default setting): Switches every other window to look at a buffer named in the mega-zone-buffer-name variable (defaults to "*mega-zone*") that contains a string stored in the mega-zone-buffer-text variable (defaults to "I AM MEGA ZONING"). Should effect console frames.
• invisible: Uses make-frame-invisible to hide all your other frames, then brings them back after zone has finished. Doesn't effect console frames.
• zone-all: Switches all other windows to look at the *zone* buffer before it starts zoning, note this will mean they all reflect the zoned content of the current window rather than have their own zoned content. Should effect console frames.

Essentially there is a dispatcher function that looks for functions called mega-zone--%s with the contents of the mega-zone-dispatch-action variable on the end, this means you can easily write your own functions. The dispatcher wraps the functions in calls to frameset-save and frameset-restore so hopefully it will preserve whatever setup you had before without mangling it and each function doesn't need to do too much beyond mess with the windows and call zone.