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Instead of incessantly dragging, sizing, minimizing and maximizing windows, you can do actual productive work. I have no idea what he's talking about here. My

Instead of incessantly dragging, sizing, minimizing and maximizing windows, you can do actual productive work. I have no idea what he's talking about here. My work day starts with me opening one firefox window (full-screen), and one emacs window (also full-screen). That's pretty much all I look at for 12 hours every day. Dragging? Resizing? Not so much. Being productive? Yes.

sanj 19y ago
I've worked that way as well, but lately I've found that I'm typing C-x b RET a whole lot to find my way to the buffer I want to view or edit. So I've ended up with multiple terminal windows: - emacs - mysql - console output - extra shell to fiddle in I'm well aware that could all be in one big emacs window, but not having to switch buffers is a worthwhile tradeoff.
Hexstream 19y ago
Well, sometimes I wish I had a screen wide enough so that I can have 2x2 emacs-windows instead of 1x2 and then another screen for firefox.
mechanical_fish 19y ago
You never find yourself, say, opening the same site in two browser windows that are as large as possible -- one Firefox and one IE -- and then using emacs to implement CSS fixes while simultaneously ranting about the stupidity of IE6 to your sympathetic teammates over Skype chat? I guess it's just me. But, even so, an enlightened emacs user can see more at once with a larger screen than with a smaller one.
hernan7 19y ago
screen + vi here, more or less the same results
BrandonM 19y ago
I use one big display, and I don't have a problem with this, either. Even on my 17" widescreen laptop, I never have Firefox maximized. I simply have a standard location that it opens to, my other applications fit around that in their standard places, and I go from there. Alt+F9 minimizes in Gnome, Alt+Tab switches between applications. I rarely touch the mouse in relation to window management, so this business of wasting time manipulating windows is something that I have not experienced.

sanj 19y ago

I've worked that way as well, but lately I've found that I'm typing C-x b RET a whole lot to find my way to the buffer I want to view or edit. So I've ended up with multiple terminal windows: - emacs - mysql - console output - extra shell to fiddle in I'm well aware that could all be in one big emacs window, but not having to switch buffers is a worthwhile tradeoff.

Hexstream 19y ago

Well, sometimes I wish I had a screen wide enough so that I can have 2x2 emacs-windows instead of 1x2 and then another screen for firefox.

mechanical_fish 19y ago

You never find yourself, say, opening the same site in two browser windows that are as large as possible -- one Firefox and one IE -- and then using emacs to implement CSS fixes while simultaneously ranting about the stupidity of IE6 to your sympathetic teammates over Skype chat? I guess it's just me. But, even so, an enlightened emacs user can see more at once with a larger screen than with a smaller one.

hernan7 19y ago

screen + vi here, more or less the same results

BrandonM 19y ago

I use one big display, and I don't have a problem with this, either. Even on my 17" widescreen laptop, I never have Firefox maximized. I simply have a standard location that it opens to, my other applications fit around that in their standard places, and I go from there. Alt+F9 minimizes in Gnome, Alt+Tab switches between applications. I rarely touch the mouse in relation to window management, so this business of wasting time manipulating windows is something that I have not experienced.