Hi kaffeepause73, I am continuing this discussion on the xmonad list. As Jason pointed out, that is the right place for it. kaffeepause73 wrote:
I'm using dwm which I really love (ev. consider switching to xmonad). However when I'm working with emacs (programming haskell) und dwm I feel, I'm not as effecient as I eventually could be... When I create new frames for emacs with strg-x 5-2 then I'm sort getting closer to where I would like to be, but then I find myself having [two] windows on which I switch buffers and I get "confused" again.
That's what I do. Except I only use ^X-5-f and ^X-5-r. I don't get confused, because I (almost) never switch buffers within a frame. Instead, I move the frames around using xmonad. Each frame is a buffer. I use the 3-column layout in xmonad. So I always have 3-5 emacs frames on each of the windows, with some frames double-height and some regular height. (My screen is pretty big.) I organize them so that I can see all of the buffers I am working at once in the same window. I use xmonad keys to move the focus around, to move the frames around within a window, to change between regular and double-height, and to move them between windows. I can also mix in other kinds of windows when needed, like a PDF viewer or a browser pane. With this set up and 4 xmonad windows, I can work efficiently with up to 20 emacs buffers. That's more than enough for me.
If there is an good solution within emacs and the emacs mode than I'm of course also more than open for it.
I'm not sure why you prefer that. For me, xmonad is a much better window manager than emacs. Thanks, Yitz