From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:29:46 +0000 Message-ID: <87a93g1305.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416879025 31459 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 01:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Raffaele Ricciardi Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 02:30:18 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 1Xt4xO-0007ef-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt4xN-0004JK-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt4x5-0004EY-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt4wx-0003SB-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:45510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt4ww-0003S2-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEC998709 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 9771 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2014 01:29:48 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.135.87]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 25 Nov 2014 01:29:48 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Raffaele Ricciardi on Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:40:42 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.8 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:101141 Archived-At: Raffaele Ricciardi writes: > 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? If I have two distinct tasks that each require a set of buffers then sometimes I create two frames. As others have mentioned there are advantages to using frames. Modern X Windows environments have keybindings for common operations on frames. However, Microsoft Windows only has a few of those, to tiresome switching between the keyboard and mouse is needed. I use both X and MS Windows daily. I generally prefer using Emacs windows rather than frames becuase they can be manipulated using the keyboard on all platforms. BR, Robert Thorpe