Do us a favor and hit C-x 3 sometime :)
Re:My Mac Mini
by abstractbill on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @09:49AM
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Heh, I'd never get anything done with all that clutter ;-)
Yeah, that is more of a "this is possible" thing :) In "real life" i use the same size screen, but with the right third consisting of an irc window, REPL, and terminal; and the other two-thirds 2 or 4 files of code.
Still cluttery, I guess... but I love it ;)
I pity someone who spends more than 90% of their time in emacs. In fact, I pity anyone who spends 90% of their time in any text editor. Googling for things alone probably takes up 10% of my time, plus the time spent in my app, plus the time spent doing none of those things.
Re:My Mac Mini
by paulsilver on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @08:10AM
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If you'd like to try them before upgrading, you can use VirtueDesktops from www.virtuedesktops.info - it's free and a pretty good virtual desktop app.
http://abstractnonsense.com/desktop.png
If emacs wasn't taking up the whole screen, I'd have a scrollbar running down the middle of the screen, which would be really visually distracting.
I used virtual desktops a lot back when I used Linux for my desktop os. They're great, and I'm sure I'll use them again when I upgrade from Tiger. But, for me at least, they're no substitute for maximization.