From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: switching frame focus Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:12:48 +0200 Message-ID: <445A0BE0.2080205@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146752017 20173 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 14:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 16:13:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbeZy-00061T-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 16:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbeZx-0004sw-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbeZk-0004sP-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbeZj-0004rd-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbeZj-0004rZ-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FbeaL-000735-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 4459B0A7000202DF; Thu, 4 May 2006 16:12:49 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: Ryan Krauss In-Reply-To: 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:34812 Archived-At: I am glad you got the answer you wanted. However the terminology is a bit reversed in Emacs. What is a window to the window manager is called frames in Emacs. A frame in Emacs can be split in Emacs windows. History is to blame for that after what I have heard. Ryan Krauss wrote: > That is exactly what I was trying to find. Thanks Roger. > > Ryan > > On 5/4/06, Roger Mason wrote: >> "Ryan Krauss" writes: >> >> > This seems like a silly question, but I have goolged around and not >> > come up with an answer. If I split my window using C-x 2, how do I >> > switch the focus between the two split frames (or whatever emacs calls >> > them). I have an aversion to touching the mouse, but basically I want >> > to click in the other window and work over there and then click >> > back. I also want to use this when I do C-x C-b to list the buffers. >> > I want >> > to switch into the buffer list to choose the one I want to open. >> >> C-x o cycles between frames. >> >> HTH, >> >> Roger