From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: vincent.marguerit@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and several windows Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:38:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1185277097.013938.236160@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1185272277.798198.192270@m3g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185277398 2585 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2007 11:43:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:43:18 +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 Jul 24 13:43:16 2007 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 4.50) id 1IDInM-0000Tv-If for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDInM-0003jq-3p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:43:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.245.56.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1185277097 5262 127.0.0.1 (24 Jul 2007 11:38:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:38:17 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.245.56.210; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150357 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:45935 Archived-At: On 24 juil, 12:25, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + vincent.margue...@gmail.com: > > | I use Emacs under Mac OS X and I don't know how to open several > | windows of Emacs, when I click on the Emacs icon it does not open me > | another window it put the current Emacs window to the front. > > C-x 5 2 should do it. I am not sure if that works with the emacs > that's bundled with the mac, however. I haven't used it in ages. > > And if you look at emacs help, you will discover a terminology > mismatch: What is a window from the point of view of the OS is called > a "frame" in emacs. Each frame can be divided into smaller > rectangles, which emacs calls windows. This unfortunate state of the > terminology came about because emacs used windows (what /emacs/ calls > windows) long before the graphical user interface was popularized. > > -- > * Harald Hanche-Olsen > - It is undesirable to believe a proposition > when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. > -- Bertrand Russell C-x 5 2 works fine, but it's strange, the new frame does not take my settings from my .emacs file. Any idea why ? Thanks, Vincent.