From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:47:37 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <871uy0n9ch.fsf@member.fsf.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310136452 24809 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 14:47:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:47:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 16:47:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCL1-0007j6-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:47:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCL0-0002Qt-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCKi-0002QX-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCKg-0006p1-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCKf-0006ou-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfCKd-0007WM-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:47:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:47:03 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:47:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rBGJm2Lo/J1HvvGjR4lw87bnco4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141794 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hi all, > > my probably most frequently used emacs keys are `ESC ESC ESC' and `C-x > b' which somehow suggests that I might want to improve my window/frame > management. > > Since lately I've read of many people on this list that they are using > dedicated windows, dedicated minibuffer frames, and popup frames. I've > briefly checked the docs. Well, that explains all variables and > functions, but it doesn't really help finding some appealing overall > configuration that just works for me. > > As a self-experiment, I've just evaluated > > (setq pop-up-frames 'graphic-only > display-buffer-reuse-frames t) > > in *scratch* to try out something completely different from the default > behavior. And basically I it's not that bad. But after using it for an > hour, I have more than 10 open emacs frames now. Most of them were > opened for showing completion possibilities, but after I've finished > completion they became useless. It would be great if those would be > closed automagically... > > Long story short: it would be nice if some people with non-standard > window/frame settings could share and briefly explain their > configuration. I'm very interested. > > And maybe it's a good idea to ship emacs with some predefined setups > users can easily try out and then extend to find one that suits them > best, for example, the current default window oriented configuration, a > more frame oriented configuration, and a frame oriented configuration > with a dedicated minibuffer frame, too. Have a look at Icicles too ....