From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46AE4916.2060709@cfl.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185859059 18545 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2007 05:17:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Susi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 07:17:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFk6t-0006M8-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFk6s-0001I4-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFk6n-0001GR-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFk6m-0001FJ-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFk6m-0001Eo-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34] helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFk6m-0002nV-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.53.195.119]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070731051722.DSWU13659.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@ceviche.home> for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8FE6E70402; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <46AE4916.2060709@cfl.rr.com> (Phillip Susi's message of "Mon\, 30 Jul 2007 16\:24\:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75843 Archived-At: > It would be nice if at some future time emacsclient was actually > interactive, functioning like a new frame on the principal emacs client, > rather than just blocking while you have to tab to the principal emacs > client to edit, then return. This makes quick editor jobs for things like > crontab -e much more convenient because you do not have to switch > windows/terminals, yet you still have the full functionality of emacs and > access to your other open buffers for purposes of cut/paste and so forth. You can customize the `server-window' to be a function that opens a new frame. Currently the only suggested one is pop-to-buffer which does the right thing for me (I have pop-uo-frames set to t). But we should probably add more, so suggestions welcome. Stefan