From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:30:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20180114150138787200988@bob.proulx.com> References: <863739gj98.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515968954 2288 195.159.176.226 (14 Jan 2018 22:29:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:29:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 14 23:29:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1eaqm2-0008So-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:29:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqo2-0005UA-6L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:31:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqnY-0005Ty-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqnT-0004s5-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:30:40 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:51336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqnS-0004r2-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB1DA4A for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:30:33 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF6B217E5 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:30:33 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 462152DC6B; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:30:33 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <863739gj98.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115721 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > If you take a look at that screenshot [1] > again, or even use file(1) on it, you find out > that the resolution is only 576 x 416. This is > the resolution of my setup, which employs > a projector, and not the most > expensive/advanced projector at that. I sympathize. I am typing this on a Thinkpad X220 and the vertical resolution is only a mere 768 pixels. I realize that is still significantly more than your 416 pixels but still in the same general size neighborhood. I can comfortably get only 47 vertical lines of text. And of course there is the minibuffer and modeline. But of course I worked for years with 80x24 terminals of similar size using emacs, live by electric-buffer-mode which I can't do without, and flip between buffers frequently. > Practically speaking, I can operate only *two* > windows! That's really my limit too. But when I split vertically I get two 24 line windows. I know that would be luxury for you. I worked for years on that size of display when that was all that was available. So while it feels cramped to me now I put up with it for the lightweight carrying around laptop that weighs a fraction of my heavier beast. Coming back to my desktop now feels like infinite living space. > This is perhaps yet another reason > I can't use info like some of you guys, > virtually having a dedicated window for it open > all day long and still have sufficient space to > do everything else. Here, everything needs to > be kept just as simple as possible. I don't keep the window open in this dedicated way you imagine. I am always using 'C-h i' and 'q' to flip between buffers. Do something. Look something up. Do something. Look something up. And also Bookmarks with C-x r l to open a bookmark. To a lessor extend I sometimes use frames. I sometimes use frames when I must take a high priority interrupt and do something else for a while and want to save the window state of what I was doing and then return exactly to it. Yes this also works in the text terminal too. First use 'C-x 5 2' to open a new frame. Do whatever. Then use 'C-x 5 o' to swap between frames. Use 'C-x 5 1' to select the current frame as the only one and close other frames collapsing back to the one you are in only to clean up. There is something that annoys me about using frames though. I'll ask that separately when I have time to discuss it. Bob