From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:43 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <18338.38672.698049.105641@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <18341.8636.733426.380121@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202055633 25363 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2008 16:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raman@users.sf.net, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: raman@users.sf.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 17:20:53 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 1JLhaM-0004b2-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:20:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLhZu-0003qV-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLhYQ-0001nc-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLhYL-0001fj-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLhYL-0001eq-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLhYL-0003Tk-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JLhYJ-00073z-SE; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:18:43 -0500 In-reply-to: <18341.8636.733426.380121@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raman@users.sf.net) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:88094 Archived-At: If I could place each frame on a separate virtual console where I'm already logged in, then I could switch among those frames by hitting alt-f, and It should be possible to set this up using the current trunk version of Emacs, since it can open multiple ttys. You'll have to do a certain amount of work to make it run, but with luck you don't have to change the C code, only the Lisp. I would guess that you need to set up /etc/inittab so that the other ttys have nothing running on them. That way Emacs will be able to open them and use them.