From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 7cfe2dc: In edebug in GUIs, move focus to the selected frame. Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:50:37 +0000 Message-ID: <20181019195037.GC6639@ACM> References: <20181019175416.10874.88992@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20181019175418.27D6920407@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20181019184916.GA6639@ACM> <20181019192132.GB6639@ACM> <3471b3cb-83c5-f0ec-7e1e-ef63bed23da0@lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539979078 21712 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2018 19:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:57:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Davis Herring Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 21:57:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gDau9-0005Wm-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:57:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDawG-000747-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDavI-00073r-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDavE-0005aW-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:19302 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDavE-0005Yx-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 92008 invoked by uid 3782); 19 Oct 2018 19:58:58 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5B147207.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.20.114.7]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:58:56 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6047 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Oct 2018 19:50:37 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3471b3cb-83c5-f0ec-7e1e-ef63bed23da0@lanl.gov> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230509 Archived-At: Hello, Davis. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 13:39:09 -0600, Davis Herring wrote: > > Most Emacs users restrict themselves to just one frame? Ouch! I > > couldn't work like that! > I don't pretend to know the general statistics, but my Emacs sessions > (not counting the occasional short-lived instance) typically have two > or three frames, but no more. In a windowed Emacs, I find it > counterproductive to have more than will (along with terminals and so > forth) tile the screen, since they tend to fight over buffers and I > have to go hunting. In a terminal, I'm instead limited by how many > window configurations I can keep in my head (but it's about the same > number). I tend frequently to go up to 8 or 9 frames on a tty, with one "big" file (such as cc-engine.el) in follow-mode per frame, or two or three "small" buffers (such as test files, *Help*, *Occur*) in other frames. I have no trouble maintaining a mental map of what's where, and I use the function keys F1 - F11 to switch instantly to any frame F1 - F11. When I need to work in a GUI, I tend to have fewer frames, each one occupying almost the entire screen area, and still switching between them with the function keys. > Davis > -- > This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or > too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during > shipping. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).