From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can Emacs help here (running on Linux, display on Windows)? Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:06:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87lgmxbu7q.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <83o9ruwmc2.fsf@gnu.org> <20170805130657728047822@bob.proulx.com> <20170805143626106652573@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501967221 25782 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2017 21:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 21:07:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 23:06:58 2017 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 1de6Hg-0006PU-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:06:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Hm-0005zW-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6HM-0005yx-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6HI-0002Bd-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51195 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6HI-0002AR-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de6H4-0004WV-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:06:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:r4/X07ZQPVr6IEC/31xI4HlgdPo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113944 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > I had suggested clicking on the title, border, frame, but you might > also try Alt-TAB switching. And Shift-Alt-TAB for reversing the > order. Clicking on the task bar entry that corresponds to Emacs also works. But using the mouse for switching focus is inefficient and, most likely, unergonomic. There are little programs out there that allow to define global shorcuts associated to actions. IIRC I have some of my Windows machines configured with one such tool that allows me to use the same keyboard shorcuts that I use on my GNU/Linux workstations for switching focus to Emacs, Firefox, etc.