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is for splitting an Emacs window into two. Multiple windows can display different buffers, or different parts of one buffer. Emacs has several default key bindings for splitting windows.

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On a bigger monitor with higher resolution, the window split with the "other" functions keeps splitting the windows into 3, 4 windows. Is there a simple way to set the limit for the splits ...
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I want to work with child frames. Do child frames support dedication, the property of dedicated frames? Emacs supports window dedication, where a window is locked to a particular buffer, preventing ...
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No matter what I try, no matter what commands, I cannot close windows, it says something like: Window #<window 4 on item.rs> has same side left as major side window #<window 7> but its ...
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I always work with Emacs in full screen mode and a vertical split down the middle, with windows on the left and right sides. How could I write an elisp command that would close all other windows on ...
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I have EMACS window normally split in two panes (C-x 3), left is for editing, right is for command line for example. I edit .po file in the left pane: I select an entry, hit ENTER and subedit buffer ...
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The aim is to display a buffer named *navigator* in a side window at the bottom. I have following code. ;; the function toggle-navigator is in another directory being imported as a package. ;; it is a ...
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I like to create a small ansi-term window at the bottom of my emacs frame, so if I'm editing two files "A" and "B", my emacs frame would look like this: +------+------+ | | ...
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I have installed treemacs package and I have enabled it in init.el file to open the treemacs on start-up. However, this also splits my window horizontally as in the picture below. I do not want the ...
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I want my emacs frame to be permanently split into two (or sometimes 3 - with a different monitor - but let's talk two for now) columns of windows. E.g., C-x 0 and C-x 1 may only affect the windows in ...
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I want to open an eshell buffer in right side of the current window in the same frame.
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Before, I used to have that windows would open on the right of my current window for things like M-x man and M-x shell. Now I have that they open below. All I've done is uninstall and reinstall my ...
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I am using AucTeX with GNU Emacs 30.0.50. It has a shortcut C-c C-l for viewing the processing of the TeX file. It seems to be using split-window-below command for opening the new buffer. Is there any ...
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Context: GNU Emacs 29.0.60 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2023-03-30, Development version 4508a024e818 on emacs-29 branch; build date 2023-03-30. ...
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Overview I'm having trouble understanding from my current config why C-x 1 (i.e., M-x delete-other-windows) does not work when executed from a window in a project that was created as a result of ...
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I am seeing confusing behavior when using switch-to-buffer-other-window. When there is only a single window, and I run these two commands: M-x split-window-right M-x other-window M-x eval-expression &...
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Summary: How can I control in which window are open the error links in a compile buffer? That is, if I have already 2 windows, I want that the error jumps to the other open window and reuses it for ...
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Starting from this window configuration of 5 windows split like this How do I create a sixth window that would take all the bottom space like the outline in red?
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I am pretty new to emacs (doom-emacs in this case) and I have an idea of what I want to do, but not sure how to do it. What I am after is that when I open a .js file, I want to split my window into 3. ...
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This is a follow up to this emacs stackexchange question: Given split windows like this: |------|-------| |1 |2 | | | | |------|-------| |3 |4 | | | | |------|--...
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I recently updated to emacs 28.2 (as packaged from https://emacsformacosx.com/). Prior to this if I hit C-x v l (vc-print-log) to see a file's git history, the window split horizontally. I'd have the ...
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I'm thinking of two specific examples, but I'm sure there are more. Currently when I do a rg, and select one of the files, it is opened in a new window in my current frame. Likewise if I am ...
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How do I write a function and call it in my init script so that when I open a file, I have two horizontal windows, the left one being dired mode and about 25% of the total emacs screen, while the ...
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I am writing my own Emacs config coming from doom-emacs and Spacemacs. One thing I really miss is the ability to split windows using split-window-below and split-window-right using S-w s s and S-w s v....
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If my laptop is connected to a 4K monitor, org export dispatcher, magit other pop up buffers are placed vertically at the right side. If undocked these buffers are placed horizontally over the low-res ...
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Typically I have two windows, left and right, with the left window (call it the "editing window") showing a buffer in a prog-mode or text-mode and the right window (call it the "...
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I have (diary) setup in my .emacs file so that it will launch diary on launch but it always launches in horizontal split screen with fancy diary mode on bottom and Scratch on top. I've inhibited the ...
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Is there a built-in function to return a window in a particular corner of a frame (e.g., lower-left, upper-left, upper-right, lower-right). The following is a first draft to locate the lower-left ...
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I can split windows with C-x 2 (split-window-below) or C-x 3 (split-window-right). But the cursor does not move to the new window. When I split I need to have the cursor in the new window. Is there a ...
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NOTE: I added more info to this query. Initially, I didn't mention dired, but after experimenting, I see that it needs to be explicitly discussed here, because of how it manages buffers. I'm using ...
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Whenever I split windows or scroll with a split window, the buffer dividers and text end up staggered horizontally. Here is a screenshot of a file without the split window or issue shown. And here is ...
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I am using ESS for using R. When I use help in ESS, I have the screenshot like Picture 1. But, I want to get Picture 2. How do I manage my init.el? The following code is my init related to ESS. (use-...
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I often split my windows into two with C-x 2. The window in the bottom tends to be the SLIME's REPL or Magit and the one at the top is usually the common lisp file being edited. I like to have more ...
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I often have two buffers open side by side and I'd like to be able to slide the central vertical bar to the left or to the right, in order to make either buffer wider or narrower. Is this supported in ...
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To resolve some performance issues I refactored my .emacs, and since the refactoring, M-x compile does not split a frame into two windows. Instead, running M-x compile takes over the entire frame ...
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I'm trying to open Deft in the left sidebar using this code: (setq display-buffer-alist '(("*Deft*" (display-buffer-in-side-window) (window-width . 0.25) ...
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I would like shackle.el to manage the buffers created by WoMan. Here's the configuration I'm using: (use-package shackle :config (setq shackle-rules '((woman-mode :select t :align below :size 0.5))...
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When I invoke Emacs from the shell with the command emacs fileA fileB, I'd like to have the Emacs window split vertically (i.e. with one file on the left and one file on the right), not horizontally, ...
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I like to work with two windows split horizontally or vertically. However, when I try to use C-x 4 f (ido-find-file-other-window) when I already have two windows, it will split one of my windows so I ...
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Currently when I choose an entry from RefTex's table of contents (opened using the C-c = keybinding), if I only have a single window open, the chosen file is opened in a new window to the right of the ...
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I just upgraded from Fedora Linux 32 to Fedora 33 and I think this updated emacs as well because I now see some new behaviours. I have set: (global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") 'org-todo-list) ...
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I'd like a key binding that can create a term buffer in a 25 percent split. What I mean by that is, with a specific key binding like SPC t c, I'd like to open up a terminal in a split.
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As @drew asked me to do here I'm asking one question per problem I'm trying to enable/disable visual-fill-column when there is one window/multiple windows. (defun my-visual-fill-one-window () (...
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If I split an Emacs frame (one X11 window) into multiple Emacs windows (with C-x 2 and C-x 3) and open different Emacs buffers in different Emacs windows, Emacs frame title (X11 window title) displays ...
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The context In the gif shown below, I demostrate that the way next-error show the current error in a new window depends on the size of the font. When using the font Fira Code 20, a single window is ...
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Any time I open multiple files I'd like emacs to only show me one buffer. I do not want any split windows. This would save me a keystroke every time. I learned I could do away with the buffer list ...
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I want to prevent julia-repl from splitting my screen, which seems like a common request given the numbers of questions I have found relating to this. Drawing on advice found here and here, I came up ...
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When I open an R file in ESS-mode, I'd like emacs to setup my panes in a certain format. To this end, I've added the following to my init.el. (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook (lambda() (...
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I'd like to use emacs as a replacement for my current IDE when using R. I like to divide my workspace into three panes: Text editor R console zsh Previously, I had used tmux to achieve this by ...
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I have a function (defun bad-fn () (interactive) (split-window-right) (windmove-right) ) If I go to a frame with just one window visiting EXWM buffer A (and buffer B is next), and call split-...
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Suppose my Emacs frame looks like this: .-------------. |a |b | | | | | | | | |------| | |c | | | | | | | '-------------' Is is possible ...
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