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 19:07:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20150721020430.1680.363D78CB@ahiker.mooo.com> References: <20150721004403.1229.1C8BC4D7@ahiker.mooo.com> <87380ipbjp.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150721013620.1433.1238725E@ahiker.mooo.com> <87egk2nv38.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 1437444462 27218 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2015 02:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 02:07:42 +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 04:07:42 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 1ZHMy4-0003tf-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 04:07:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57683 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMy2-00058u-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMxt-00058f-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMxs-0003FE-GA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder-1-pt.tunnel.tserv3.fmt2.ipv6.he.net ([2001:470:1f04:51a::2]:45109 helo=acedia.primate.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHMxs-0003Ee-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:07:28 -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 t6L27RHA030487 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:07:27 -0700 Original-Received: (from itz@localhost) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t6L27Q8H030480 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:07:26 -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 1ZHMxq-0000Rs-Cq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:07:26 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egk2nv38.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:105894 Archived-At: On 2015-07-21 03:43 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > 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. > No, I'll stick with windows... So how would you handle this situation? Switch to the Emacs desktop, open the file, commit the item to memory (or paper?), switch to the browser desktop, enter the item, switch to the Emacs desktop, kill the buffer+window, switch to the browser desktop again? -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.