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Re: Emacs and several windows
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Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and several windows |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:25:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) |
+ vincent.marguerit@gmail.com:
| I use Emacs under Mac OS X and I don't know how to open several
| windows of Emacs, when I click on the Emacs icon it does not open me
| another window it put the current Emacs window to the front.
C-x 5 2 should do it. I am not sure if that works with the emacs
that's bundled with the mac, however. I haven't used it in ages.
And if you look at emacs help, you will discover a terminology
mismatch: What is a window from the point of view of the OS is called
a "frame" in emacs. Each frame can be divided into smaller
rectangles, which emacs calls windows. This unfortunate state of the
terminology came about because emacs used windows (what /emacs/ calls
windows) long before the graphical user interface was popularized.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
Re: Emacs and several windows, Arjen Wiersma, 2007/07/24