From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MBR Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:10:01 -0500 Message-ID: <54738289.60409@arlsoft.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416856271 7732 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2014 19:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:11:11 +0000 (UTC) To: Raffaele Ricciardi , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 20:11:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz2J-0001Ol-2v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:10:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz2I-0005cG-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz1w-0005bo-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz1m-0001pi-Lp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:10:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-hampton.hostforweb.net ([205.234.186.191]:59903 helo=hampton.hostforweb.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz1m-0001bB-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from c-24-34-107-193.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.34.107.193]:65057 helo=[192.168.1.121]) by hampton.hostforweb.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsz1N-000r44-5S; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:10:03 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hampton.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - arlsoft.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: hampton.hostforweb.net: authenticated_id: mbr+arlsoft.com/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (barebone) [generic] X-Received-From: 205.234.186.191 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101135 Archived-At: I use M-x compare-windows a LOT. So, I'll usually have at least one frame big enough to hold two side-by-side 80 column windows, and that's where I'll do most of my work. However I tend to open a new frame for things where I want to see an additional file briefly. Also, I'm frequently running a local terminal emulator, and from that emulator's shell prompt I've got an ssh connection to a remote host on which I'm running emacs. Under those circumstances, frames are not an option, so I use emacs windows for everything. Mark Rosenthal On 11/24/14 11:40 AM, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > The usefulness of frames is evident for buffers that update their > content according to the current buffer (like Speedbar and ECB). > Besides this kind of use, when do you prefer frames instead of windows? > > Thank you. >