I don't _think_ I would use splits in conkeror frequently; I usually want to browse the web fullscreen. That said, I do use emacs splits constantly.
In addition, I do keep many buffers open, and when I want to view two websites side-by-side, it's likely they're already open in two buffers. And so if we can't pull buffers into different WM frames, I'd really want in-conkeror splitting to deal with that. And while I may agree in principle that this should all be your window manager's problem, it's pretty clear that window managers aren't There yet and probably never will be. I have O(200) emacs buffers open, and I sure as hell don't know a window manager that could deal with 200 windows in a graceful way. - Nelson On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > How useful would it be for Conkeror to support Emacs-style splitting of > top-level windows (frames in Emacs terminology) into multiple panes > (windows in Emacs terminology)? > > For me, it is essentially not at all useful, because I don't even use > multiple buffers per window, and I'd just assume let my window manager > take care of handling each buffer. Splitting and multiple buffers per > window are in some sense window manager features implemented in the > application, and for both consistency and simplicity, it just seems > better to leave window manager features in the window manager. > > Microsoft Windows is, of course, a bit of an exception since the "window > manager" is sort of fixed, not very good, and not easily changeable. > > If you have thoughts on this, send a reply. > > -- > Jeremy Maitin-Shepard > _______________________________________________ > Conkeror mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
