Re: Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames?

[Richard Riley]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> 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.

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