Re: Using gdb (windows popping up)

[Óscar Fuentes]

jonetsu <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> writes:

> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:15:17 -0400
> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The thing containing the windows. See also (info "(emacs) Frames").
>> 
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Frames.html
>
> I see.  Although, without have read everything, and I'm certain there
> are a lot of possibilities. it resumes itself for all practical
> purposes much like another emacs instance, apart from sharing the same
> underlying buffers.

There is a huge difference. A new Emacs instance does not share state
with other instances.

A frame is just what in modern GUI terminology is known as a toplevel
window, or what most users call a window. An Emacs instance can have
multiple frames, just like the same Firefox or LibreOffice instance can
have multiple windows.