From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When do you prefer frames instead of windows? Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:37:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417019874 8845 80.91.229.3 (26 Nov 2014 16:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 26 17:37:47 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 1Xtfb9-00073E-LT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:37:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtfb9-00013f-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtfaq-0000ym-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:37:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtfaj-0007mk-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtfaj-0007mZ-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:37:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtfah-0006gw-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from 32.211.214.204 ([32.211.214.204]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from kgoldman by 32.211.214.204 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:37:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.211.214.204 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101227 Archived-At: On 11/24/2014 11:40 AM, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > The usefulness of frames is evident for buffers that update their > content according to the current buffer (like Speedbar and ECB). Besides > this kind of use, when do you prefer frames instead of windows? I always have 10's of frames open when coding, so I can easily switch between them, while each is a full window. I use windows a lot in conjunction with keyboard macros. The macro will do something in one window, switch to the other window to do something else, then back. E.g., converting a big case statement <-> macro #defines, making function prototypes from functions, any repetitive multi-file macro.