In Emacs, a window is one part of a frame, displaying one buffer. For questions about operating system windows, see the tag 'frame.
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How to change which window a click in *Occur* buffer affects?
My use case: I am looking at one place in the code in one window (call it window A), have a second window with the SAME code open (window B) in the same frame, together with an Occur buffer, that I ...
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How to assign an Emacs buffer to an EXWM workspace based on a regexp?
I know how to assign apps to various EXWM workspaces thanks to:
exwm-manage-configurations
But I don't know whether it is possible to assign Emacs buffers to EXWM workspaces in a similar fashion. ...
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How to bind mouse click to kill an inactive window, but not the buffer
I'm trying to create a binding to kill windows (but not buffers) when they're being pressed by a middle mouse click in their header lines. (Just to note, all windows in my setup have header lines.)
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In org-mode, what variable controls the placement of the calendar view when called from a capture template?
I have a question related to this one: when I am in a capture template (for writing a TODO task, for example) and I want to open the calendar with C-c C-s (bound to org-schedule, so that I can set a ...
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Elpy - Close Window when invoking elpy-shell-kill
Elpy helps a great deal, when editing Python-Code. For example it let's you run the current file with C-c C-c in a new Window with a REPL. When i'm done with this, i can hit C-c C-k (elpy-shell-kill) ...
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How do I set window size
When I start emacs, I would like to have it set up so that there is a scratch buffer on top and a terminal on the bottom. I would like the terminal to be 15 lines tall. So far I have
(defun startup-...
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How to launch (start) emacs with a single window and choose the buffer of that window as default in the init.el file? [closed]
What statements in the init.el file can be added so that there is a single window shown as the default I have is split into 2 windows vertically aligned (equivalent to typing C-x 1)?
Then once there ...
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How to disable buffer movement in a particular window in emacs?
I am trying to figure out if we can disable a particular window from switching the buffer it contains. If anyone has achieved that please share.
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Switch to last window
I am trying to use the code from this answer:
Is there a generic toggle-previous-window function?
(defun switch-to-last-window ()
(interactive)
(let ((win (get-mru-window t t t)))
(unless win ...
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Function to ensure window height
Is there a function to ensure (or at least try) that a given window has a height of N lines, by shrinking it (or enlarging it) as needed?
If N is too much (or not enough) for a given scenario, then a ...
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How to fix a buffer to a pane
I have my emacs in 2 by 2 configuration. When debugging, certain actions triggered the opening of another file. The newly opened file could be in a specific window pane and covers originally opened ...
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Magit popup set height automatically
When the magit-commit-popup window opens, there are one or two lines that are just below the screen. Calling fit-window-to-buffer in the popup buffer fixes the problem, but I would like to automate ...
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What is the difference between switch-to-next-buffer and next-buffer?
To go to the next/prev buffer I use the commands next-buffer / prev-buffer. This works well and is very comfortable.
But there are also two other commands switch-to-next-buffer / switch-to-prev-buffer ...
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Minibuffer for each window
Is there a way to have a minibuffer window for each window? I don't want recursive minibuffers, just one per window so that I don't have to look to the bottom of the screen when editing a window ...
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Move to other window backwards?
Emacs has the function other-window that lets you jump between windows. The function's documentation states that it takes an optional argument that tells the function how many windows to jump ahead.
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Unable to use ediff with emacs and evil due to window configuration
Running emacs 25.2.2 with evil installed and updated from Melpa.
When I run ediff, it asks for usual buffer A and buffer B and then ONLY the ediff buffer in its own frame is visible with 'Type ? for ...
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Reopen closed window in Spacemacs
How can I reopen a closed window in Spacemacs? Something like Cmd-Shift-t in Chrome.
I open a window using SPC w s and delete it with SPC w d, but I don't know how to reopen one that I've closed.
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helm-find-file (and other things) appearing in my main split
I currently have helm installed.
Sometimes when I have my window split vertically, when I run helm-find-files, it appears in one of the already open windows, rather than creating a new horizontal ...
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Why ace-window doesn't show sometimes the window id?
I initialize the package ace-window with this code:
(use-package ace-window
:ensure t
:config
(global-set-key (kbd "M-p") 'ace-window)
(custom-set-faces
'(aw-leading-char-face
((t ...
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What keys can I use to create/delete and select side windows?
I have a shell buffer that's a good candidate for a side window:
I also regularly use an org buffer, that's always good to have around.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/draft/manual/html_node/elisp/...
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Running elisp within an orgmode code block
Consider the following elisp source code within a .org file:
#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :results silent
(delete-other-windows)
(split-window-right)
(switch-to-buffer-other-window '"*Python*")
#+END_SRC
This ...
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Emacs daemon multiple buffers for same file
When running Emacs as a daemon, function find-file automatically selects and uses a preexisting buffer that is visiting the same file.
My problem is, when using the same buffer in multiple frames ...
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How to set up custom layout for spacemacs?
I want to ask something regarding making my own custom layout for spacemacs. I have read the documentation. They have an example like this:
This is the custom layout for ERC buffers.
(spacemacs|...
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How can I split the neotree window in spacemacs/emacs
I want my neotree window not to extend all the way to the bottom as shown here.
How is that possible? If I try to split it I get an error saying the side window can't be split.
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Emacs 25.3.2: reverse windows on file opening
If I open 2 files by command line:
emacs file1 file2
in Emacs 25.3.2, file2 is opened in the upper window and file1 in the lower.
This didn't happen in previous versions of Emacs that had the ...
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Emacs Dired `C-x C-j` opens a new frame instead of a new window
I am using Aquamacs 3.3 GNU Emacs 25.1.1 and Dired+. Sometimes the key sequence C-x C-j opens the Dired buffer in a new frame instead of a new tab in the running frame.
I want the behaviour that the ...
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How to autoscroll a window to always show the end of a growing buffer?
Context: I have a window that shows the output of a shell command. As new lines are added, I'd like the window to always show the most recent lines. Example:
(let ((temp-window (or (get-buffer-...
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How to make new windows use the current font size?
When making a new window (using make-frame-command), how can I use the current font scale for new windows?
Note: reported a bug, since it seems this might be good default behavior.
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Open new window and switch to it
Assume I'm opening a new window with for example C-x 2 or C-x 3 then the buffer opens and I need to switch to it by hand with C-x o. Is there a build in solution to do this with one command? Or even ...
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How to reuse org-tree indirect buffer windows?
So I would like to use the function below. The problem is that if I call this multiple times another window opens instead of the window that already exists.
All the buffers that are created look like ...
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Prevent Helm from opening in a new frame
I recently updated Helm from MELPA to version helm-20180305.1056 and helm-core-20180306.2241. Now sometimes when I use Helm it opens in a new frame. I think this happens when I have 2x1 or 2x2 window ...
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How can I set a directory buffer in one window to open files in another window?
The setup I am going for would look something like this:
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| | |
| | B |
| | |
| A |----...
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Prefer vertical splits over horizontal ones
There are several questions similar to this one. I have read them all and they don't provide an answer for my scenario. I want emacs to prefer vertical splits (splitting windows into left and right ...
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Remapping C-x C-b to Open List of Buffers in Same Window
I use Emacs across different machines and operating systems. I noticed that when I press C-x C-b to get a list of all buffers, on some machines the list opens in the same window where the cursor is ...
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Jump between two frames, code improvement
I often have got multiple emacs frame in various desktop, but only two of them are visible.
I often need to jump between those two frames, but since other frames are opened I can't use C-x 5 o, ...
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Newbie: Simple setup for dired in sidebar?
Simple question from a new Emacs user: I'd like to have my editing window have a sidebar (or a divided window, or a frame--I'm not sure of the terminology or the options here) that has a dired (or ...
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How to enable minimap when X and disable it when noX?
I want to disable minimap when nox system.
(defun my:minimap-only-x()
(when (eq window-system 'x)
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'minimap-mode)))
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'my:...
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Display calendar at bottom in Org Agenda
Recently I find that when I want to display calendar in Org Agenda, it opens a new window instead of displaying at bottom as in Org File. My Emacs version is 25.3.3 with Spacemacs 0.300.0(develop ...
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is there a hook that is run before a window is deleted
I want to do some custom stuff before a window is deleted?
window-configuration-change-hook seems to be invoked after a window is deleted.
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Neotree window not resizable
I get this message when I try to resize the neotree window using my mouse:
No resizable window on the left of this one
Does anyone know how I can make the neotree window re-sizable?
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Set Neotree width by percentage?
I currently have this in my config file for neotree:
;(neotree-show)
(setq neo-window-width 25)
Does anyone know how I can set the window width to 25 percent?
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Display all/current CSV heading names
In CSV files (especially ones with a lot of columns and/or a lot of rows) I find that it's hard to tell which column I'm on. Normally I'd like to know either the column heading, or sometimes the ...
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Keyboard macro with occur
In a keyboard macro, there is an occur command. While recording the macro, I switched to the occur window, did some editing, closed occur buffer reverted back to original buffer to continue editing.
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Restrict Mode Line display to window
I am configuring mode-line and currently the time is displayed in each window's mode-line, as shown by the image below. Is it possible to restrict the time display to the bottom right mode-line?
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org-edit-src-code in a specific window
I am currently using org-mode to edit code blocks for presentations and blog posts.
Currently I have a frame set up with one large window pane on the left, and two smaller panes on the right.
The ...
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replace-buffer-in-windows issues in switching from emacs 24.5 to emacs 25.2
I installed Emacs 25.2 on a new system and cannot get the desired behavior with killing buffers when an Emacs frame is split into multiple windows.
For example, I have C-x 3 bound to a variation of ...
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How to open all buffers in the same window and never create new one?
I'm using emacs in terminal via emacs-nox and I wish to sort of disable windows functionality at all. I mean I do not want each time to add some buffer to use display-buffer-same-window function, I ...
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Preserving Layout Using emacsclient
If I spawn Emacs in --daemon mode, I can then use emacsclient to connect to the daemon from within a terminal window. If this then dies, I can reconnect my terminal and my Emacs session is still ...
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How to control which window is opened as “other Window”?
I am new to Magit and Spacemacs.
I do not understand descriptions of other-window and next-window in the manual.
I have 4 windows open in a Spacemacs frame like this:
+--+--+
| | |
+--+--+
| | |
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get buffer scroll position and height (aka min and max on-screen buffer locations)
I'm interested in the region of a buffer that is visible on-screen.
How do you get the current scroll position of a buffer? I.e. the line number of the topmost line in the viewable area? (Given ...
