From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A "smaller" dired Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:07:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <547CCD1598BC4FB8980A496C272784B5@us.oracle.com> <7B1191D9D3E1434AA8413B9DB021E8AB@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281021156 11389 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 15:12:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:12:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 17:12:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh27V-00013Y-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh27T-0006gL-RZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50712 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh1zT-0001mk-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh1zR-0002po-Vk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh1zR-0002pV-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgzE6-0003yZ-OY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:07:10 +0200 Original-Received: from 79-087.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de ([134.61.79.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:07:10 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by 79-087.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:07:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 79-087.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OT1F5c/sztwmmeeX0ISS/p9Spts= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74453 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > > I don't understand some of those questions (dunno what mm is etc.). > > I use Emacs frames the way most people use Emacs windows. Mm was just related to the fact that (but maybe I'm wrong) is linux where you can have crazy window managers (xmonad for example) that let you do very interesting things with windows. But as I see below there are ways also on windows. It's a good idea I think, the only "problem" is that I like to have emacs in fullscreen, it's less distracting in general. [...] > The number of frames that I want iconified corresponds well with the amount of > desktop real estate I use for thumbnail frames. At any time I of course have > many additional buffers open that are not visible in any frame (thumbnail or > otherwise). And I can also iconify a frame normally (different keystroke), but > I rarely do that. Interesting thanks I'll give it a try.