From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the new frame? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:42:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20150721013620.1433.1238725E@ahiker.mooo.com> References: <20150721004403.1229.1C8BC4D7@ahiker.mooo.com> <87380ipbjp.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437442941 6882 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2015 01:42:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:42:21 +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 21 03:42:21 2015 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 1ZHMZX-0005E1-Ug for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 03:42:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMZX-0001kd-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMZO-0001kW-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMZM-0000m8-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder-1-pt.tunnel.tserv3.fmt2.ipv6.he.net ([2001:470:1f04:51a::2]:44385 helo=acedia.primate.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMZM-0000lj-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from acedia.primate.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Debian-2) with ESMTP id t6L1g6Nr029145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:42:06 -0700 Original-Received: (from itz@localhost) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t6L1g5qe029140 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:42:05 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: acedia.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f Original-Received: from itz by ahiker.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMZI-0000Nw-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:42:04 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87380ipbjp.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:470:1f04:51a::2 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:105892 Archived-At: 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. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.