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It's not just you. While reading the article I was thinking "wow, these guys are using 39" monitors, while I'm perfectly happy with a single 17" monitor or a 1
by NigelTufnel 13y ago
It's not just you.
While reading the article I was thinking "wow, these guys are using 39" monitors, while I'm perfectly happy with a single 17" monitor or a 13" laptop. There must be something wrong with me."
Emacs is my screen space saviour. Every file or shell is 3 key presses away, I just don't need extra monitors.
- marcosdumay 13y agoHave you tried emacs in portrait mode on a bigger screen?
- broken_symlink 13y agoI've tried it on a 24in monitor running at 1920x1200 in portrait mode. Its great for editing text. I found that a good setup was to split the screen vertically and have 2 windows, one on top of the other. It doesn't really work well when splitting horizontally.
- thom 13y agoHow do you use frames and windows in emacs? Even on a single screen, I've generally got at least a couple of columns up, so I can understand the utility of greater real estate. With multiple monitors, you can open two frames up, use next-multiframe-window and it mostly behaves like a giant emacs across two screens. That said, I almost exclusively work on a 15" retina MBP and don't find myself annoyed, so I guess you're right. :)
- 300bps 13y agoI use multiple monitors for having my editor on one screen and having on the other screen: 1. My database design for reference 2. A web browser for when I google how to do a particular thing 3. Specifications for the project I'm working on 4. Example code from other things I have written in the past These things make me a more productive programmer. I don't see a legitimate reason as to why multiple monitors wouldn't make someone more productive but let me know what I'm missing!