From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:59:53 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416877232 27017 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 01:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:00:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 02:00:26 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 1Xt4US-0002IO-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:00:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55048 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt4US-00006t-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:00:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="18726"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wnW/P35XITm/r5BUxWA96" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AH/nNaN4ZAK01G09+V4AFW+7Q0c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208860 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:101140 Archived-At: In article , dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) wrote: > For example: Barry Margolin pointed out that he prefers 4 ansi terminals > in a "shell frame". I like to have a "file manager" frame with two > dired buffers side by side. Gnus literally "demands" his own frame in > its default mode of operation! That wasn't me, it was someone replying to my post. I just said I use one frame because it's an old habit. I've been using Emacs since 1980, multiple frames weren't added until 1994. Another advantage of windows over frames is they work the same whether you're using Emacs in a GUI or terminal. Although I admit that when I need to do a quick edit in a terminal, I usually use vi. This is usually when I'm ssh'ed into a server, and they usually don't have Emacs installed, and even if they did I wouldn't have all my extensions there. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***