cross post from reddit, OP: @[email protected]

Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

    • frankenswine@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      isn’t it Frames in Emacs context?

      not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy

      • callcc@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.

      • kyoji@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client

        • joby@programming.dev
          2·
          3 days ago

          Now I’m curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window… And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I’m usually in a GUI environment.