Re: Different emacs arrangements in one session

[Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>]

Yes, I read your post just fine. You're talking about strictly compiling.
I'm pointing out that I do more than just compile when i switch to a
terminal. Since it's a distributed system, I also have to re-compile
multiple projects and libraries that link to it as well.

I guess you really didn't answer my question at all, to be honest, but
instead assumed you knew what I needed?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:

> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> >   I use Emacs primarily for development over SSH into a remote
> server. I
> >> > generally have several terminal sessions, many buffers of code, etc.
> >>  Often
> >> > times, I want the window arrangement for my ansi-term buffers to be
> >> > different than my code buffers.
> >> >
> >> > For example, Perhaps, I have my code buffers split into quarters, and
> >> then
> >> > I want to switch to one of my ansi-terms to compile the code. As it
> >> stands
> >> > now, that ansi-term will just take up one of my quarter screens, when
> I
> >> > want this to be my full screen.
> >> >
> >> > Any idea how to do this? I've looked at frames, but it doesn't seem to
> >> > quite work right?
> >> >
> >> > It should be noted, that on the remote server, I generally do emacs
> >> > --daemon and then emacsclient -c -nw
> >> >
> >> > this way, my environment persists across different logins.
> >> >
> >> > Any idea how I can accomplish the above?
> >>
> >> No not really.
> >>
> >> But switching to a terminal session to do a compile might not be the
> >> best way to use Emacs.  I do all my work in a similar ssh'd Emacs
> >> and save huge amounts of time driving all my compiling _and testing_
> >> using M-x compile.
> >>
> >> There are a lot of benefits to working this way.
> >> You'll never compile without saving your file first,
> >> Emacs can use the compiler messages to access lines in error,
> >> and if multiple files need compiling before a test
> >> the makefile takes care of all that.
> >>
> >> Oh, also, the window configuration is managed by M-x compile.
> ...fixed top post (once per customer)
> > Well, I guess Frames does *kind of* what I want it to do, I was just
> using
> > it incorrectly.
> >
> > They're not as disjoint as I'd like, i.e., in one frame, I can access the
> > files in another.. I guess Frames really just manages window
> arrangements,
> > and doesn't actually multiplex different emacs sessions over one server.
> >
> > Also part of the reason I want multiple terminals is because this code
> is a
> > distributed system, so after I compile something and I want to test it, I
> > like to be able to lauch multiple processes in different windows and see
> > the output live.
>
> I don't think you read and understood what I wrote.
>
>
> --
> Dan Espen
>