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Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows?
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Charles Sebold |
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Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows? |
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Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:07:20 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) |
On 8 Dec 2008, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> It seems one can open multiple windows but only TWO will be visible at
> a time. Is there any way to change that?
First, I guess we'd want to make sure of whether you mean windows or
frames. Emacs' nomenclature is a little unusual on that point.
,----[ (info "(emacs)Frames") ]
| When using a graphical display, you can create multiple windows at the
| system in a single Emacs session. Each system-level window that
| belongs to Emacs displays a "frame" which can contain one or several
| Emacs windows. A frame initially contains a single general-purpose
| Emacs window which you can subdivide vertically or horizontally into
| smaller windows. A frame normally contains its own echo area and
| minibuffer, but you can make frames that don't have these--they use the
| echo area and minibuffer of another frame.
|
| To avoid confusion, we reserve the word "window" for the
| subdivisions that Emacs implements, and never use it to refer to a
| frame.
`----
I know that I can open more than two frames or windows, and do it
frequently.
Can you tell us what you do to try to open more than one?
--
Charles Sebold 8th of December, 2008
GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.14