{"id":7508,"date":"2018-09-27T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2018-09-27T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:04:52","slug":"dedicated-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7508","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated Frames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOver on the Emacs subreddit, freetonik has an interesting tip for Emacs users. The idea is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/9igsru\/tip_dedicated_frames\/\">have several frames each dedicated to a particular function<\/a>. It made me think of Xah Lee because he likes to work (mostly) with frames rather than windows. Really, though, it&rsquo;s more like what many of us do with our window managers: we dedicate one window to, say, our editor, another to the browser, a third to things like email, and so on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&rsquo;s a natural way to work but I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d like it for Emacs. That may be just because it&rsquo;s not what I do now and that I&rsquo;d like it if I tried it but probably not. The thing about Emacs is that it&rsquo;s really easy\u2014especially with Ivy, Helm, or Ido\u2014to find and switch to any buffer you want. In many of the cases mentioned by freetonik, I have dedicated keys to go <i>directly<\/i> to a desired buffer. For example, <kbd>F6<\/kbd> brings up the mu4e main menu for email and <kbd>Hyper<\/kbd>+<kbd>e<\/kbd> brings up a full screen eshell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStill, if like many of us, you&rsquo;re essentially using Emacs as a window manager (because all your tasks operate inside it), it might make sense to dedicate frames to certain tasks just as we do with &ldquo;real&rdquo; window managers. Is anyone, besides freetonik, doing this? If so, how is it working for you? Leave us the benefit of your wisdom in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Emacs subreddit, freetonik has an interesting tip for Emacs users. The idea is to have several frames each dedicated to a particular function. It made me think of Xah Lee because he likes to work (mostly) with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}