On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really do want is to only have one emacs _window_ (ie one tab), > not just one emacs process. A significant proportion of the time I > get the file that I want to look at via some xterm command using > emacsclient rather than opening it directly in emacs. (I find this > more convenient because the shell in the xterm is often in the > directory the file is in anyway, so I don't have to do all the > typing to put the correct directory in front of the path when using > find-file in emacs, or I can open files returned from a grep, etc.) > If I got a new window each time I did this, I'd have 20-30 windows > belonging to emacs at any given time to no purpose. But it's not > that hard to open the file, then use the mouse to switch to my emacs > window.
(still cc to the list because they may find this of interest in the context of Ion) gnuclient can run an Emacs command, so run '(file-find "file name")' and it will open it in the current window instead of opening a new one. If you do directory browsing like that a lot, try dired, it's very nice (also works for tar/zip/etc. inspection). The file opens in Emacs - no fuss. > I'm still trying to figure out how to reduce the number of xterm > windows from about 30 to a smaller number whilst keeping the > benefits of the separate bash history files in each window :-) Use screen! Ted
