Allen Halsey <address@hidden> writes:
In a GUI world, I have a buttons on my task bar for the applications I am
currently running:
- Thunderbird Mail Client,
- A Java IDE
- Mozilla Sunbird Calendar Application
- A couple of terminals
- An IRC client
- A text editor with multiple tabs for keeping notes and TODO lists.
To read mail, I click the button on my task bar for Thunderbird. Likewise for
the other apps. Simple.
Emacs can subsume the functionality of all these apps in a single
instance. That's one button on task bar. But I hesitate to embark on this
approach because I am absolutely terrified that I'll click that one button
and drown in a sea of buffers.
Simple. Move the window bar into emacs as well.
I think maybe I just haven't learned the right tricks yet. Should I run each
major app in separate frames? In separate instances? Is using an alernate
Window Manager like RatPoison the answer?
Before I dropped X altogether I was using RP. Now I live on the console, with
a screen window for each host. Each host runs screen, within which there is
generally one window -- emacs. Apart from switching between hosts, pretty much
everything is done in Emacs.
I often have a separate frame for Gnus (yes, you can have multiple Emacs frames
on the console), but I don't bother for w3m-el or planner or emacs-wiki --
usually it's only a keypress or two to get Emacs to DTRT.