[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner-frame: devote a frame to the Planner

[Paul Lussier]

Jesse Alama <address@hidden> writes:

> I too used elscreen for a while, and while I was using it I did
> essentially what you did: put my applications on single frame.
> Although it was close to what I was looking for, still it wasn't ideal
> because it put things into a single frame.

My understanding is that elscreen was meant to allow the
make-frame-command to more closely behave in X as it does under -nw
mode.  Interestingly, I use elscreen with emacs under -nw mode, which
is somewhat redunant with the make-frame-command in this case.  I just
like the way elscreen sets up the tabs, and it's behavior is
incredibly close to that of screen, which I'm also a rather fanatic
user of :)

> I actually like to have multiple frames: I fire up multiple emacs
> applications in distinct frames and then use Mac OS X's excellent
> Expose feature to move among my frames.

I've found that more frames takes more real-estate and forces me to
use the mouse more.  Fewer frames with (el)screen allows me to not
move around so much, but have just as much going on in a smaller
amount of screen space.a

I also am not a huge fan of Expose.  Actually, I've found over the
past year or so, that I'm not entirely crazy about the Mac interface
at all.  I work in X almost exclusively, and the Carbon/X integration
is basically non-existant.  Though, I've become a big fan of
WorkspaceManager, which does a decent job of virtual workspaces for
Mac OS X.

> I also played around with Drew Adams's 1on1
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/OneOnOneEmacs), but this seemed
> to be overkill, generally speaking.  More specifically, some of the
> features don't seem to work on Mac OS X (at least, I couldn't get them
> to work) and it made working with gnus a real challenge.

I've found in general, that building emacs from CVS and running it
under X seems to work better than Carbon Emacs, though that could just
be my proclivity for running under X :)

> Remember is "always there" even when one commits a frame to the
> Planner :->

Right, as long as remember can, then I don't have to :)
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Seeya,
Paul