From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switching frame focus
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445A0BE0.2080205@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5b438120605040702v5b4b05f4k751e08002877e82a@mail.gmail.com>
I am glad you got the answer you wanted. However the terminology is a
bit reversed in Emacs. What is a window to the window manager is called
frames in Emacs. A frame in Emacs can be split in Emacs windows. History
is to blame for that after what I have heard.
Ryan Krauss wrote:
> That is exactly what I was trying to find. Thanks Roger.
>
> Ryan
>
> On 5/4/06, Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca> wrote:
>> "Ryan Krauss" <ryanlists@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > This seems like a silly question, but I have goolged around and not
>> > come up with an answer. If I split my window using C-x 2, how do I
>> > switch the focus between the two split frames (or whatever emacs calls
>> > them). I have an aversion to touching the mouse, but basically I want
>> > to click in the other window and work over there and then click
>> > back. I also want to use this when I do C-x C-b to list the buffers.
>> > I want
>> > to switch into the buffer list to choose the one I want to open.
>>
>> C-x o cycles between frames.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-04 13:50 switching frame focus Ryan Krauss
2006-05-04 13:56 ` Roger Mason
2006-05-04 14:02 ` Ryan Krauss
2006-05-04 14:12 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-05-04 14:25 ` John Conrad
2006-05-04 18:12 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-05-04 14:31 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-04 18:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
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