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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "andrés ramírez" <rrandresf@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: frame names on tty are different than the ones on X-frames
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmgb1mwm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po4r8o8l.fsf@gmail.com> (message from andrés ramírez on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:55:38 -0600)

> From: andrés ramírez <rrandresf@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:55:38 -0600
> 
> On my workflow. I have a bash alias myemacs (for not polluting my main
> emacs-dev session). I use this specific
> emacs session (the one invoked with the alias) as a file explorer, on
> different usb pen drives. So when I have 4 pendrives or tar.gz
> files (It meants 4 different emacs instances ran by the alias). And the two main one emacs
> sessions (ran by --daemon). the emacs-dev-session and the emacs-mail-session (which uses
> url-retrieve-synchronously){which hangs emacs for a few seconds}.
> On the emacs-dev-session (with uptimes of months). I have several frames emms, erc, my-org-notes-frame, bbdb,
> and my project-directory.
> 
> Then In total I have:
> six emacs sessions
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> dev
> mail
> pendrive1
> tar.gz
> pendrive2
> pics
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> with a total of 10 frames. Then M-TAB is not useful for discriminating
> the frame I want to point out.

You can give your frames descriptive names, then use those names to
call out the frame you want.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-26 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-26 19:57 frame names on tty are different than the ones on X-frames Andrés Ramírez
2018-02-26 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-26 20:55   ` andrés ramírez
2018-02-26 21:06     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-02-27  1:40       ` andrés ramírez
2018-02-27 13:13         ` Christian Lynbech

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