8.5.5 Frame Type

A frame is a rectangle on the screen (a window in standard window-system terminology) that contains one or more non-overlapping SXEmacs windows (panes in standard window-system terminology). A frame initially contains a single main window (plus perhaps a minibuffer window) which you can subdivide vertically or horizontally into smaller windows.

Frames have no read syntax. They print in hash notation, giving the frame’s type, name as used for resourcing, and a unique number assigned at the time the frame was created.

(selected-frame)
     ⇒ #<x-frame "emacs" 0x9db>

See Frames, for a description of the functions that work on frames.