From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the new frame?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:42:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150721013620.1433.1238725E@ahiker.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87380ipbjp.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se>
On 2015-07-21 03:03 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> "get at"...?
>
> You want to get *to* the frame, or get the actual frame?
Get the frame object into a Lisp variable, that is all. It was a dumb
question, since selected-frame does exactly what I want.
> By the way: Why do people use frames?
I won't answer in general, but in this particular situation: I want to
temporarily open a file in the context of other programs (such as a web
browser) which I always place on a different window manager desktop than
Emacs, and then close it.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-21 0:47 How to get the new frame? Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-21 1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-21 1:42 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2015-07-21 1:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-21 2:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-21 21:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-21 21:49 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-21 23:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-21 3:56 ` John Mastro
2015-07-21 4:46 ` Ian Zimmerman
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2015-07-23 15:11 ` B. T. Raven
2015-07-23 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.7309.1437666858.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-23 18:21 ` B. T. Raven
2015-07-23 19:23 ` Javier
2015-07-23 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-07-23 21:02 ` B. T. Raven
2015-07-23 22:38 ` Javier
2015-07-24 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 12:02 ` B. T. Raven
2015-07-24 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-07-24 14:55 ` Javier
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2015-07-24 12:51 ` B. T. Raven
2015-07-24 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-27 21:13 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-24 15:25 ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-24 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-23 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-07-21 7:00 martin rudalics
[not found] <mailman.7205.1437439660.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-21 17:25 ` Javier
2015-07-21 17:44 ` Javier
2015-07-23 9:01 ` Javier
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