From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:32:26 -0800 Message-ID: <18338.37578.204371.768021@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20080127195538.GA5014@muc.de> Reply-To: raman@users.sf.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201836785 25004 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2008 03:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 04:33:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKmea-0002AB-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:33:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKme8-0005Ds-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKme4-0005Df-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKme3-0005DG-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKme2-0005DD-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.80]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKme2-0007Kl-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.52]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id joiR1Y00417UAYkA81Qz00; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:32:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([71.202.191.236]) by OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id k3YS1Y00956Ur8v8Z00000; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:32:27 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=HdFaTR1dtkYA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=2z1OXlWFAAAA:8 a=l4XDCJzQiMsRZCPh6gAA:9 a=i37hu1qxknbVAWS-vlOQTecppvcA:4 a=ii61gXl28gQA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=kwz2ALlf93kA:10 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 407BB12A4871; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:32:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM alpha-478 under Emacs 23.0.50.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) x-attribution: tvr X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87903 Archived-At: and I can vouch for this, it works well. I use it all the time >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:55:38 +0000 From: Alan Mackenzie >> Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, >> emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Actually, you may be right. The mechanism for switching >> frames (C-x 5 o, repeated ad nauseam till you finally >> reach the frame you're looking for) is so broken as to be >> unusable, at least for me. Eli> Eli> A solution has been in existence for that problem for a Eli> very long time: give your frame a name with "M-x Eli> set-frame-name RET FOO RET", then select it with "M-x Eli> select-frame-by-name RET FOO RET". Puff! problem gone. Eli> Eli> Eli> _______________________________________________ Eli> Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org Eli> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs