[OS X Emacs] Scratch buffer as separate window problem

Tristan Sloughter tristan.sloughter at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 16:29:43 EDT 2010


It has been a day now and no probems! This is great, thanks everyone!

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:19 PM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Tristan Sloughter wrote:
>
> > I'm new to OSX and Aquamacs.. I'd been using Emacs under xmonad and now I
> am working in OSX and trying to get a nice workflow. This caused me to work
> with a fullscreen aquamacs so I could just use emacs as my window manager
> essentially. The only problem arises because somehow what calls itself the
> "scratch buffer" in its title bar becomes a separate window. I say its not
> really the scratch buffer since I can not type in this window. Also, if I
> minimize that window I can not use the other, real aquamacs, window at all
> until I unminimize it.
> >
> > It is mostly annoying since sometimes when I switch spaces back to the
> Aquamacs space this rogue "scratch buffer" window is on top and focused,
> meaning I must manually put focus back on the fullscreen aquamacs to
> continue working. Maybe that doesn't sound like much but it is very
> frustrating :)
>
> I haven't seen such effects with the Aquamacs 2.1 fullscreen mode.
>  However, since 2.1 was released, we have made good progress with a new
> fullscreen mode.  I'd invite you to try it out - download the master branch
> nightly build from http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
>
> I hope that'll address the problem.
>
>
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