From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <46AE4916.2060709@cfl.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185876794 3782 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2007 10:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:13:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 12:13:08 2007 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 1IFoix-0003uD-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFoix-00006f-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFoit-0008TB-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFoir-0008OY-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFoir-0008OM-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFoir-0008BR-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IFoii-00022t-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.92.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:12:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAGFBMVEUKDAg1NjRWV1V9fnyg op/DxcLk5uP8/voi63ReAAAACXBIWXMAAAWJAAAFiQFtaJ36AAAAB3RJTUUH1goZAgAz00bgXgAA AeVJREFUKM9lk0Fz2jAQhQXJD3CCO70CmcC1YMtcWyTZ14Bl69xats4N9r6/3zWQBlodNKNPu/s0 b1cCQFuZGpfVVh3vAvBJolIXRkapSuoRUtIdFyo1Y5xSdlAj7OtvD1XnXxmWRi+eWgcxyCed1lVV B1CrKyujMoi+eLA5kU1SsjoHlW+nQjTtFxk4MXgrOxvIqzoTZR8XgPaLl419zgsMaSGFPiUOZCIh thsx5Xy9NsK8Kwf/JoQgMxcVJ301HKkcSWaT0O7FY056J4U9xcYfnmVXG4801lW6lqwu2nKFZoHC HuzvaTVndZ+LaRQgZdthXw1cpynEkLEwyFHXk/aIxNQ6QeooJuzPMB+wn+D7JJNsiCcVA13/A3h/ xE9J+WidpAwoYNmRFwyvSRhNVtsdaAewzZZP5uw82QL9+tyNfocyP0McAzICUr5Mk9RdIjWasUNx aIIt6NK4ZtXIMdfMQt3nuMAyWbLI4DqZ4xPq/ag8jPond4XU/cLuOgw6XCFX/YCUfcDAMMH58fD4 G9kDchwfqVefkBwup2uZM+Q4WhJt5jN3AxXCsaS2yXEDuWgS8VOzW0gFjhEPmLyFMKBFaLb1HRwc DiaKwx0EeTMRYnYPQRW3PP4HApvlMv0PttX5v/D6Aws3IOSEwzmLAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.0 (20070727) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9VjqTTnkoITuJpvXwqizywduYiU= X-detected-kernel: 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:75849 Archived-At: On 2007-07-31 06:17 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> It would be nice if at some future time emacsclient was actually >> interactive, functioning like a new frame on the principal emacs client, >> rather than just blocking while you have to tab to the principal emacs >> client to edit, then return. This makes quick editor jobs for things like >> crontab -e much more convenient because you do not have to switch >> windows/terminals, yet you still have the full functionality of emacs and >> access to your other open buffers for purposes of cut/paste and so forth. > > You can customize the `server-window' to be a function that opens a new > frame. Currently the only suggested one is pop-to-buffer which does the > right thing for me (I have pop-uo-frames set to t). But we should probably > add more, so suggestions welcome. switch-to-buffer-other-frame seems work quite well too. -- Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)