Questions tagged [frames]
are the graphical system-level “windows” of Emacs. It initially contains one window and normally also contains a menu bar, tool bar, and echo area.
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Ace-Window: How to jump to ediff's control frame?
I'm using ace-window to jump around windows and frames. Usually multiple frames are not a problem: When invoking ace-window, every buffer in every frame gets its own "jump character", ...
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Show only documentation in a new frame
The following function shows the documentation in a new frame. But it also shows the buffer storing the code. How can I show only the documentation, so the documentation fills the whole frame? (...
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Child frame dedication
I want to work with child frames. Do child frames support dedication, the property of dedicated frames? Emacs supports window dedication, where a window is locked to a particular buffer, preventing ...
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Reuse and focus of window displaying buffer in a dedicated frame
I want to create and use a dedicated frame where a specific buffer is always shown, and any call to display that buffer brings focus to that dedicated frame (reusing the existing window if present). ...
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Setting theme before the initial frame
If I start emacs with the following init.el ;; Of course, my actual init.el does real work here (sleep-for 1) (load-theme 'wombat t) then the initial frame will first show the light default theme for ...
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One Emacs instance per project
I know that there are many ways to logically separate concerns by project in a single Emacs instance. However, what I'd like to do is to get one Emacs instance per project and one instance for any ...
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Control location of tooltip produced by tooltip-show
When I evaluate (tooltip-show "test"), it is my expectation that the tooltip will appear right next to the current location of point. However, the tooltip instead appears in a seemingly ...
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Is it possible to obtain an Emacs Lisp object from its printed representation?
For instance the expression (mapcar (lambda (frame) (cons frame (list (window-list frame)))) (frame-list)) produces the output: ((#<frame *scratch* 0x55e9a0b70408> (#<window 280 on *...
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