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Fantastic introductory summary, great graphic. For the full pedantic detail, there's one other thing to know about Emacs "frames": they extend the graphic-user-interface concept of multiple independent overlapping floating windows to the text-user-interface, that is, the terminal. So when running Emacs in the terminal, you still have frames at your disposal, it's just that (in contrast to a GUI) you can only see one at a time (unless you use tmux or GNU Screen). In practice you will usually only use and want one frame when running Emacs in the terminal, but the option is still there.

Phil Hudson
– Phil Hudson

2021-11-24 09:30:30 +00:00
Commented Nov 24, 2021 at 9:30
@PhilHudson: great addition, thanks. I only ever use Emacs in the GUI, so didn't know about the frames-on-the-terminal point you added.

Dan
– Dan

2021-11-24 12:40:31 +00:00
Commented Nov 24, 2021 at 12:40

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