4.9 Grouping sessions into separate frames

It is possible to manage groups of emacs-w3m sessions in separate frames. One use for this would be to have two emacs-w3m frames, where one contains sessions visiting search engines, and the other sessions visiting news sites.

Emacs-w3m offers some convenient features that allow you to visit many web pages at the same time. For instance, you can use tabs (see section Everybody likes tabs) to visit many pages in new sessions, or do so using a special URL beginning with ‘group:’ (see section Visiting several web pages in one URL). However, you may want to group them into separate frames if there are too many pages. If so, the w3m-fb-mode command is for you. Note that you have to set the w3m-use-tab variable to non-nil (t by default) and set the w3m-pop-up-frames variable to nil (the default) in order to use it (see section General variables).

Typing M-x w3m-fb-mode toggles the mode, but you can turn the mode on by giving a positive integer as a prefix argument to the command (zero or less turns it off).

When the w3m-fb-mode is turned on, the sessions that you start in the current frame will be associated with only that frame. Other sessions that are opened in other frames will similarly only appear in those frames. In other words, sessions associated with one frame don’t appear in other frames. w3m-fb-mode doesn’t create any new frames, so you need to make them yourself in some way.

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