From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:46:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <21620.14313.322121.768484@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416930429 29915 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 15:47:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Raffaele Ricciardi To: Gian Uberto Lauri Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 16:47:02 2014 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 1XtIKU-0001R3-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIKU-0006YC-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54460) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIKA-0006Xp-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIK3-0006kU-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:46:42 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:50617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIK2-0006kQ-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sAPFkKL6014637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:46:21 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sAPFkJ9C026949 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:46:20 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAPFkJpf027468; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:46:19 GMT In-Reply-To: <21620.14313.322121.768484@mail.eng.it> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:101168 Archived-At: > > I would ask an opposite question: IF you could use Emacs frames > > as easily as you can use Emacs windows, in what scenarios would > > you prefer using Emacs windows, and why? >=20 > ...mail reading, sql interaction and when working on two parts of > the same file or two files with a macro... >=20 > If the frames could really be used like windows, then, it could be > that I would be comfortable with separate frames. That was the question. "IF you could use frames as easily as you can use Emacs windows..." I certainly agree that currently you cannot, especially with just vanilla Emacs. But if you could... > create several WindowMaker application icons with a single Emacs > instance, and using a different image for each application icon. That sounds like something that would pertain only to certain platforms, since different platforms have different notions of "icon" etc. But the ability you mention sounds like it might be useful. > This was nice because that let me associate a certain frame with a > certain workspace (i.e. e-mail on workspace 1 and db-interaction on > workspace 6) and use a click on the application icon to jump to that > workspace. FYI, you can use bookmarks to similar effect. With Bookmark+ you can just jump to this or that desktop bookmark, to change between Emacs "workspaces", as defined by desktop.el. And it doesn't matter whether you use one frame or 37 frames for such a workspace. http://www.emacswiki.org/BookmarkPlus#DesktopBookmarks