Re: "grouping" buffers

[Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>]

I don’t what the default ^h-a binding is.  It is some restricted form of “apropos”.  One thing I do is change this mapping from the default to “apropos”.  It gives a more complete list of commands, functions, variables, etc.

    (define-key help-map (kbd "a") ‘apropos)


> On May 31, 2020, at 2:34 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
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>> On May 31, 2020, at 16:21, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I don't know how to "set the name frame property". But there is probably a place in the elisp manual that says how to do that.
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>> I did this:
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>>   (set-frame-parameter nil 'name "Hello World!")
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> Thank you.
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>> and the title of my WM window that displays the current Emacs frame
>> changed. Of course this made it less convenient: now it displays a
>> static string, whereas previously, per my ‘frame-title-format’
>> configuration, it displayed the unsaved status and name of the buffer
>> in the currently selected window in that frame: •README.md – Emacs.
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> That's what the manual says. Basically, the name reflects the mode line info. I understand it can be useful, but it's also redundant. Also, I don't need all that when I work with multiple frames. I need to have an idea of what kind of buffers I mainly work with there (hence the subject title: "grouping buffers"). So having a name derived from the *state of the current buffer* in that frame is not useful for me.
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>> If in your workflow you need a frame that you control, you arrange for
>> your code to create it and stash the reference into a private
>> variable, then refer to the frame via that variable.
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> I'm not sure what I *need* in technical terms. In practical terms I need to keep the context of a given work, so I want to split my activity between "enclosed" sections of my emacs session. But it looks like the perspective.el mode that I found earlier is close to what I want, so before reinventing a wheel that seems pretty complex, I think I'm going to see how that mode works :)
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