I personally have desired the ability to do this for a while. Sometimes, for example, I want to be testing things efficiently using data from one page in another. Rather than create a new frame, and then do Mod-< in xmonad to put both frames in the same column and Mod-> when i'm done to revert to traditional layout, it would be *much* easier if I could simply do C-x 0/2.
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
