Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

Re:Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs by gumby on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:57AM (#24210384)

“Better way to manage multiple files”? I just asked Emacs and I have over 700 files open. Not sure what is inconvenient about editing multiple files.

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Re:Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs by yourapostasy on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:13AM (#24210547)

And in case someone reading is wondering, "how do I count the number of buffers":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/350526/how-do-i-count-th...

I recommend using the desktop feature also mentioned there.

Now, if I can only get emacs daemon mode to maintain state so if I abruptly disconnect and reconnect with emacsclient over X11 I get the state restored exactly where I left off, so that even the screen is painted exactly where I left off, down to the cursor position. Running something like VNC is a non-starter on my locked-down WinPC, unfortunately.

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Re:Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs by gumby on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:15PM (#24217962)

Just do c-x c-b to get the list of buffers and c-x l to count the lines. Like everything in emacs it’s an editable buffer which is quite handy.

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Re:Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs by BeetleB on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:41PM (#24218181)

Ah, but this will be incorrect if you have multiple buffers pointing to the same file.

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Re:Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs by gumby on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:09PM (#24224731)

When you have hundreds of buffers it doesn’t really matter.

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