I bind this to C-x C-c, which means that you can call the "magic emacs" command on a load of files, edit them in different frames and when you hit C-x C-c, you don't kill something you were working on in a different desktop. For me, this is at least as important as spawning the frames in the first place! Rupert [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnuClient