From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: 25 Nov 2014 17:32:04 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416936940 14779 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 17:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:35:40 +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 18:35:34 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 1XtK1V-0005dq-MI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:35:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtK1V-0000as-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:35:33 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net +fJLer7PXDLED3yT36S87QTQNxTyk/DfmDK/73m8mNWiUotCmk Cancel-Lock: sha1:RmpZ7nKFolJYsZFeXPyxDXg1j2s= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208902 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:101182 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > I would ask an opposite question: IF you could use Emacs frames > as easily as you can use Emacs windows, in what scenarios would > you prefer using Emacs windows, and why? The one thing I like about Emacs windows as opposed to frames is that they resize automatically: when you create one, another window is reduced in size, so that the new window doesn't cover it, and when you delete one, another one grows in order to occupy the space that becomes available. I tend to work in a single window occupying a maximised frame, and when I want/need to do something else, I usually switch to that buffer. (I'm perfectly happy letting mu4e or ebib or ediff or whatever take over the entire window, hiding what I was working on before.) When I do split the one window, it's usually for something I only need to take a quick look at (help buffer, error messages, etc.) I don't want that window to cover what is in my "main" window, and I want to get rid of the extra window as soon as I'm done with it. AFAIK this automatic resizing isn't possible or at least not as easy with frames. I find this a definite advantage of windows over frames, and to be honest, I don't see what advantages frames have over windows. (You mention they have more features/possibilities, but I'm not sure which features you mean...) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)