Re: Emacs and several windows

[vincent . marguerit]

On 24 juil, 12:25, Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> + vincent.margue...@gmail.com:
>
> | I use Emacs under Mac OS X and I don't know how to open several
> | windows of Emacs, when I click on the Emacs icon it does not open me
> | another window it put the current Emacs window to the front.
>
> C-x 5 2 should do it.  I am not sure if that works with the emacs
> that's bundled with the mac, however.  I haven't used it in ages.
>
> And if you look at emacs help, you will discover a terminology
> mismatch: What is a window from the point of view of the OS is called
> a "frame" in emacs.  Each frame can be divided into smaller
> rectangles, which emacs calls windows.  This unfortunate state of the
> terminology came about because emacs used windows (what /emacs/ calls
> windows) long before the graphical user interface was popularized.
>
> --
> * Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition
>   when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
>   -- Bertrand Russell

C-x 5 2 works fine, but it's strange, the new frame does not take my
settings from my .emacs file.

Any idea why ?

Thanks,
Vincent.