From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:33:59 +0100 Message-ID: <878tczagg8.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <863739gj98.fsf@zoho.com> <20180114150138787200988@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515990775 1625 195.159.176.226 (15 Jan 2018 04:32:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:32:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bob Proulx Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 05:32:50 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 1eawRx-0008B9-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eawTw-0004GD-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eawTT-0004Fq-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:34:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eawTQ-0000xb-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:40559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eawTQ-0000wC-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41EBE673B; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:34:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CxA3PiRwQG6U; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:34:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1218BE6034; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:34:05 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <20180114150138787200988@bob.proulx.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:115727 Archived-At: On 2018-01-14, at 23:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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. That's what I do, too, ut keep in mind that you can also save window configurations in registers. (info "(emacs) Configuration Registers") Best, -- Marcin Borkowski