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[feature request] Add info on next-multiframe-window command

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From: Seweryn Kokot <sewkokot <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [feature request] Add info on next-multiframe-window command
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:42:56 +0000 (UTC)

Hello,

Yesterday I added an external monitor to my laptop and created two
frame; one on each screen. Then I looked for a command to cycle
between windows and frames and couldn't find what I wanted in emacs or
elisp reference manuals. I tried to write my command but without
success. Searching on the internet I found that next-multiframe-window
(previous-multiframe-window) command is what I looked for. I think it
would be useful to mention this command in both emacs manuals in
paragraphs where other-window and other-frame commands are described.

Thanks in advance,
Seweryn

Message #8 received at 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Seweryn Kokot <sewkokot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12431: [feature request] Add info on next-multiframe-window
 command
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:31:37 -0700

Seweryn Kokot <sewkokot <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Yesterday I added an external monitor to my laptop and created two
> frame; one on each screen. Then I looked for a command to cycle
> between windows and frames and couldn't find what I wanted in emacs or
> elisp reference manuals. I tried to write my command but without
> success. Searching on the internet I found that next-multiframe-window
> (previous-multiframe-window) command is what I looked for. I think it
> would be useful to mention this command in both emacs manuals in
> paragraphs where other-window and other-frame commands are described.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
responses yet.)

Yes, that seems like a very useful command, and it's not mentioned
anywhere in the manual, as far as I can see.

I've now mentioned that command in the section that talks about
other-window.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #15 received at 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: sewkokot <at> gmail.com, 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12431: [feature request] Add info on next-multiframe-window
 command
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:31:45 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:31:37 -0700
> Cc: 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I've now mentioned that command in the section that talks about
> other-window.

Thanks.

When you mention in a manual something that isn't described in the
same section, please always consider adding a cross-reference to where
that something _is_ described.  We should normally assume that a
subject described in another section is not something the reader is
necessarily well familiar with.

Message #18 received at 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sewkokot <at> gmail.com, 12431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12431: [feature request] Add info on next-multiframe-window
 command
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 14:08:47 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> When you mention in a manual something that isn't described in the
> same section, please always consider adding a cross-reference to where
> that something _is_ described.  We should normally assume that a
> subject described in another section is not something the reader is
> necessarily well familiar with.

Yup; will try to remember doing so in the future.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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