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Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. That's really interesting! I have the opposite problem -

Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. That's really interesting! I have the opposite problem - switching windows doesn't pop my mental stack, but if there's anything on the screen other than what I'm trying to focus on, it keeps diverting my attention and ruining my concentration. Fullscreen emacs on OSX (without even the system menu bar!) is just awesome for me. Here's a screenshot of what my entire desktop looks like when I'm working on code: http://abstractnonsense.com/desktop-2013-02-17.png http://abstractnonsense.com/desktop-2013-02-17.png

micampe 14y ago
You may find this little app useful http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/ http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/
- abstractbill 14y ago
  Thanks, that does look quite awesome!
marchdown 14y ago
How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?
- brainid 14y ago
  With Emacs 24 you can use ns-toggle-fullscreen.
  - marchdown 14y ago
    Emacs 24.2.1 here, no matches for "ns-toggle fullscreen". Edit: no luck with the latest pretest (24.2.93.1) either.
    - dustingetz 14y ago
      for `M-x ns-toggle-fullscreen` you need `brew install emacs --cocoa`
- abstractbill 14y ago
  I have (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth) in my .emacs, and it just works (GNU Emacs 24.2.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)).
- nfg 14y ago
  If using macports then install using port install emacs-app +fullscreen Then ns-toggle-fullscreen as mentioned below.
- emidln 14y ago
  In addition to the mac-specific ways, if you set your Terminal app to Fullscreen (the double diagonal arrows on the top right of Lion+), you can just invoke emacs from the command line. I did this while evaluating whether emacs+evil was something I'd be interested in and it worked just fine. To be honest, I spend most of my time using OSX in a single fullscreen Terminal.app inside tmux.
sandover 14y ago
The trouble with this, ergonomically speaking, is that you spend all day with your head cocked to the left. In the long run, that's less than ideal for your neck and shoulders. Of course, most window management schemes put people into that territory. Tiling WMs seem to optimize for maximizing occupied screen real estate, but I haven't seen one that optimizes around arguably more important factors, such as minimizing damage to the body (head, neck, eyes). Instead, you tend to see a lot of layouts that pretty much leave someone looking at the bottom left corner of a console window in the bottom left corner of a big screen 80% of their work hours. Not physically optimal, and in fact, an anti-pattern.

micampe 14y ago

You may find this little app useful http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/ http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/

abstractbill 14y ago
Thanks, that does look quite awesome!

marchdown 14y ago

How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?

brainid 14y ago
With Emacs 24 you can use ns-toggle-fullscreen.
- marchdown 14y ago
  Emacs 24.2.1 here, no matches for "ns-toggle fullscreen". Edit: no luck with the latest pretest (24.2.93.1) either.
  - dustingetz 14y ago
    for `M-x ns-toggle-fullscreen` you need `brew install emacs --cocoa`
abstractbill 14y ago
I have (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth) in my .emacs, and it just works (GNU Emacs 24.2.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)).
nfg 14y ago
If using macports then install using port install emacs-app +fullscreen Then ns-toggle-fullscreen as mentioned below.
emidln 14y ago
In addition to the mac-specific ways, if you set your Terminal app to Fullscreen (the double diagonal arrows on the top right of Lion+), you can just invoke emacs from the command line. I did this while evaluating whether emacs+evil was something I'd be interested in and it worked just fine. To be honest, I spend most of my time using OSX in a single fullscreen Terminal.app inside tmux.

sandover 14y ago

The trouble with this, ergonomically speaking, is that you spend all day with your head cocked to the left. In the long run, that's less than ideal for your neck and shoulders. Of course, most window management schemes put people into that territory. Tiling WMs seem to optimize for maximizing occupied screen real estate, but I haven't seen one that optimizes around arguably more important factors, such as minimizing damage to the body (head, neck, eyes). Instead, you tend to see a lot of layouts that pretty much leave someone looking at the bottom left corner of a console window in the bottom left corner of a big screen 80% of their work hours. Not physically optimal, and in fact, an anti-pattern.