From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient sharing buffers. Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:52:10 +0200 Message-ID: <877gqxzejp.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <1349901755933-266830.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349938356 7879 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2012 06:52:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:52:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 08:52:43 2012 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 1TMCdO-0000pW-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:52:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMCdI-0006Al-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMCdA-0006Aa-3r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMCd4-0004zP-7t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMCd4-0004zL-12 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMCd8-0000fk-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:52:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8QQVQpWNFFdydqS9IDre9z/yR6E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:87167 Archived-At: ayzdark writes: Hi! > But maybe, I need to get used to this way of using emacslient, closing > files with C-x # and handling all opened files in each new frame. > What's your opinion ? I like it that way. I want to access my mail (Gnus), org agenda, and IRC buffers (rcirc) from any frame I might have. I guess it's rather common that experienced emacs users have dozens or even hundreds of open buffers in emacs. Then, the essence is to use the right tools for buffer switching. Cycling or tabs aren't adequate concepts for many buffers, but for example partial completion and substring matching in buffer name completion is. See (info "(emacs)Completion Styles") for how to customize emacs buffer and file name completion. There are also some packages providing alternatives: ido, iswitchb, lusty-explorer, helm, ... Bye, Tassilo