Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows?

[Charles Sebold]

On 8 Dec 2008, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:

> It seems one can open multiple windows but only TWO will be visible at
> a time.  Is there any way to change that?

First, I guess we'd want to make sure of whether you mean windows or
frames.  Emacs' nomenclature is a little unusual on that point.

,----[ (info "(emacs)Frames") ]
| When using a graphical display, you can create multiple windows at the
| system in a single Emacs session.  Each system-level window that
| belongs to Emacs displays a "frame" which can contain one or several
| Emacs windows.  A frame initially contains a single general-purpose
| Emacs window which you can subdivide vertically or horizontally into
| smaller windows.  A frame normally contains its own echo area and
| minibuffer, but you can make frames that don't have these--they use the
| echo area and minibuffer of another frame.
| 
|    To avoid confusion, we reserve the word "window" for the
| subdivisions that Emacs implements, and never use it to refer to a
| frame.
`----

I know that I can open more than two frames or windows, and do it
frequently.

Can you tell us what you do to try to open more than one?
-- 
Charles Sebold                                     8th of December, 2008
 GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.14