Re: "grouping" buffers

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 31, 2020, at 16:21, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know how to "set the name frame property". But there is probably a 
>> place in the elisp manual that says how to do that.
> 
> I did this:
> 
>    (set-frame-parameter nil 'name "Hello World!")

Thank you.

> and the title of my WM window that displays the current Emacs frame
> changed. Of course this made it less convenient: now it displays a
> static string, whereas previously, per my ‘frame-title-format’
> configuration, it displayed the unsaved status and name of the buffer
> in the currently selected window in that frame: •README.md – Emacs.

That's what the manual says. Basically, the name reflects the mode line info. I 
understand it can be useful, but it's also redundant. Also, I don't need all 
that when I work with multiple frames. I need to have an idea of what kind of 
buffers I mainly work with there (hence the subject title: "grouping buffers"). 
So having a name derived from the *state of the current buffer* in that frame 
is not useful for me.

> If in your workflow you need a frame that you control, you arrange for
> your code to create it and stash the reference into a private
> variable, then refer to the frame via that variable.

I'm not sure what I *need* in technical terms. In practical terms I need to 
keep the context of a given work, so I want to split my activity between 
"enclosed" sections of my emacs session. But it looks like the perspective.el 
mode that I found earlier is close to what I want, so before reinventing a 
wheel that seems pretty complex, I think I'm going to see how that mode works :)

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