Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!nsc!voder!parns!barnes From: barnes@venezia.nsc.com (Tim Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Multi Window Emacs on X11 Message-ID: Date: 17 May 89 20:16:25 GMT References: <8905161534.AA20897@aurora.franz.uucp> <60784@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Sender: news@parns.nsc.com Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation Lines: 25 In article <60784@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Krulwich-Bruce@cs.yale.edu (Bruce Krulwich) writes: Does anyone have any information about Multi Window EMACS at all (ie, any version)?? I've been wondering for a few years now why this hasn't been done, and am interested in knowing the details even if its an old version I wouldn't want to use. The emacs which came with Lucid Common Lisp's window system (maybe it still does) used to open separate screen windows for each emacs window. I didn't like it very much, because I found that I always wanted the windows tiled (otherwise I wouldn't have opened a new window, as opposed to creating a new buffer). I found myself doing a lot of window size and shape manipulation, which was a nuisance. Perhaps a good compromise would be to have multiple real windows, but have them managed together in some way, so that you could move them as one, and resize them either independently or together. -- / / National Semiconductor Corporation -/- o /__ ___ __ ___ ___ ___ Santa Clara, CA / / /\ /\ / / ___/ / / / /__/ /__ (408) 721 6169 /__/ / \/ \ /__/ /__/ / / / /___ ___/ barnes@parns.nsc.com