cross post from reddit, OP: @pizzatorque@mastodon.social

Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

  • frankenswine@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    isn’t it Frames in Emacs context?

    not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy

    • callcc@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.

    • kyoji@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client