Questions tagged [window]
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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Swap 2 Windows Associated by “Follow Mode”
Say a frame is split (by C-x 3) into 2 windows that both display the same buffer.
If I enable follow-mode, the left window will always display the content closer to the beginning-of-buffer than the ...
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Why does Emacs hold on to a not common sense meaning of the words: frame and window?
Below voluminously explained the context of the question stated in the question title:
I have started to use Emacs very intensively some days ago and are still bumping into doing things the wrong way. ...
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how to get ace-window to do row-major numbering of windows?
I use ace-window, and when I have at least two rows and columns of windows. When I invoke ace-window, it does column-major ordering of the windows:
|----------+----------|
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The number of characters in one line is very different from `window-width`
In my environment, I can only enter 130 single-byte characters in one line in the actual buffer while window-width is returning 160. Apparently window-width is returning columns, not characters. Is ...
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Why does other-window-for-scrolling ignores variable other-window-scroll-buffer?
According to the documentation of other-window-for-scrolling we should be able to specify the "other window" by setting the variable other-window-scroll-buffer:
other-window-for-scrolling ...
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How can I make a window always show the same file buffer?
How can I force Emacs to keep a certain file in a particular window? For example, if I am editing a LaTeX file and there is a compile error, I want to inspect the error in another window. I ...
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emacs command window is too small
When I C-x to show the list of commands, the window of commands is chopped like below
how can I make it show the full?
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Window Point Reset After Update
I have a buffer which is updated periodically using run-at-time, and in order to maintain the point in each window I use set-window-point, but I find that in sometimes when something is interrupted ...
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Why I cannot quit the window using `quit-window`?
Say I have two existing files named "file1.el" and "file2.el".
Then I perform the following steps:
I open a file named "file1.el"
C-x C-f a file named "file2.el&...
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How to switch buffers (prev & next) with minimal buffer list order modification?
How to switch buffers (prev & next) with minimal buffer list order modification?
To be succinct and without getting into the weeds of particular details, the best way to explain what I am trying ...
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Display Different Sections of *info* In the Same Session [duplicate]
To read Emacs Lisp Intro, I type C-hi and choose the book.Then I type C-x3 and try to see another section in the right window.But once I choose another section in the right window, the left window ...
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How to get `Info-mode`'s text to horizontally fit the window like in the html version?
See images for a comparison. The emacs version line-wraps much before the horizontal space ends. Html version was screenshotted from here
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Delete or hide compilation buffer when finished compile and run process
Recently I'm using this function which is given bellow, to compile and run C++ program. Everything works fine with this function.
I just want to delete pop-up window (generated by this function) after ...
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Transfer focus to started asynchronous process
I have the opposite issue from How to avoid losing focus after starting an asynchronous process?. I would like to call start-process and have the resulting window be focused.
Specifically, I am ...
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save a specific layout
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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How to disable `q` key (quit) for *Geiser Debug* window?
The *Geiser Debug* window disappears after pressing q. This is normally good for dismissing the error messages in the window (for scheme). However, I'd like to keep this window open so that I can see ...
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treemacs window border is drawn over vertico-posframe: how to fix?
I use vertico-posframe to switch buffers. When treemacs is active, the border between the treemacs window and the text window is drawn over posframe with the buffer list:
How can I fix this?
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Why EAF browser is opening outside emacs buffer?
I'm new to emacs, so excuse any naivety that you might see.
These are my sys and emacs config.
System Version: macOS 12.5 (21G72)
GNU Emacs 28.1
I've tried installing eaf and eaf-browser in emacs, i ...
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emacs edebug change the position of a point in a window based on changing the position of a buffer point
When you debug code that edits the text of a buffer, the window of that editable buffer is open. Interested in consistently displaying the position of a point in this window relative to the buffer ...
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How do I automatically reload my agenda views on window/frame resize?
I've noticed that my agenda views get squashed (line breaks) when my window/frame resizes, e.g. when I move the Emacs frame to a smaller monitor. Is there a way/hook to automatically reload my open ...
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How do I start emacs with two horizontal windows one of which is dired?
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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Resizing window with text scaling
I often have multiple windows in emacs. I would like to have a function that modifies the width of a window to a certain value, then scales the text such that the longest line in the buffer fits the ...
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Is there a library to make `'evil-goto-mark` restore the screen position of the marker?
I use emacs and evil. If I set a marker using 'evil-set-marker, scroll elsewhere in the file, and then execute 'evil-goto-mark or 'evil-goto-mark-line, the window will scroll back until the position I’...
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How to open indirect buffer in specific window
I would like to be able to open an org tree in an indirect buffer inside a specific window. For example, I open an org file in one window, then two new windows with split-window-right / split-window-...
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DOOM themes: color face for line that divides buffers
I installed Doom themes on my Emacs.
I would like to know how to manually change the color face of the vertical line that divides different buffers. By default it has a dark color not very ...
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How to make :q, in spacemacs' evil mode, kill the buffer and delete the window, but not kill Emacs?
How can I make :q in spacemacs' evil mode, kill the buffer and delete the window, but not kill Emacs?
Coming from VI, the habit of closing with :q/:wq or ZZ/ZQ doesn't translate very well into Emacs.
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How to prevent `desktop-save-mode` from opening multiple windows?
I want to restart Emacs at the same cursor position in the file (or buffer) I was just working on.
In my Emacs config I have the following code to try and do this:
(use-package desktop
:straight ...
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My tiling window manager is crashing with ediff-mode window creation. How to fix it?
I am using Material Shell which is a tiling window manager created as an extension of GNOME Desktop Environment.
After an interactive rebase in Magit, a merge conflict happened. Thus, to fix it, I ...
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Why does this `display-buffer-alist` rule not do what I expect?
I have the following in the display-buffer-alist list:
(("*"
(display-buffer-in-side-window
((side . left)
(window-width . 110)))))
While display-buffer-overriding-...
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How do I make Magit use the active window for operations and, on-exit, return the window to the previous buffer?
I am a recent newcomer to emacs, and I have my screen split into 4 windows in a grid arrangement. I'm having some problems using Magit, which is that it spawns (seemingly arbitrarily) in one of the 4 ...
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How can I keep windows from being shrunk past their fill-columns?
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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How can I quit windows like *Help* and *Messages* without first selecting them?
I find myself running C-h k/f/v and after reading the popup that's in the other window, going to that window and closing it. Is there a way to streamline that process a bit more (maybe adding a hook ...
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How to hide comments and move them to a separate window?
I'm interested in hiding comments in code or structured text, but displaying them in another window; i.e. same buffer, two windows side-by-side, one showing the main text (code, or content), but ...
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How can I check whether the current buffer is an eshell buffer?
I'm trying to write a function which opens or closes an eshell window. So far I have:
(defun bottom-window-eshell()
(interactive)
(let ((buf (eshell)))
(switch-to-buffer (other-...
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How to get the width of the window without line numbers? (or other content in the fringe)?
The result of window-body-width doesn't change when display-line-number-mode is enabled / disabled.
How can I get the window width but excluding the fringe?
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Move the fringe indicators close to the window text
When I use olivetti-mode I'd like to have grey margins and the fringe indicators close to the window text, like in this picture:
The problem is that when the fringes are wide the indicators end up ...
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How to know what part of the file is currently displayed in a window?
Essentially, is there a function in Emacs like
text-currently-displayed-in-window --> returns two integer
The integers represents the position interval that is currently being displayed on screen ...
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How to get a window in a corner of the frame
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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How to resize the bottom mini window?
What I did was
I installed the fresh spacemacs
I added org and osx layer
I used the doom-1337 theme
C-c a to select agenda commands
Then, the bottom letters are barely seen as the mode-line height ...
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Display attachment to mu4e message (a PDF) in the same window rather than new frame
I am using mu4e and pdf-tools. Whenever I go to open an attached pdf (e.g., with gnus-article-press-button) the attachment pops open in a new frame. How can I control where it pops up? Looking at that ...
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How to switch windows to specific visible buffer?
Is there a command that allows me to have my cursor switch windows to a specified buffer? Something that looks like
(switch-to-specific-window-command "buffer-name")
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Shift+Ctrl+arrow to enlarge and shrink windows does not work in org-mode
Similarly to what is described here, org-mode overrides C-S-<arrow> key-binds which, in order to control the size of the windows, I have defined as follows:
(global-set-key (kbd "S-C-<...
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Can window-height be ignored in display-buffer-alist after initial creation?
Currently I'm using the following display-buffer-alist,
which works fine but resets the size on opening a new window.
Is there a way to only use the window-height when first creating the window? After ...
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How to display the minibuffer above candidates in helm
I am looking for configuration that displays the minibuffer in which to type input above matching candidates in a helm buffer.
I went through each helm variable and the closest named variable was helm-...
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How can Elisp code determine the previously selected window?
I would like to implement an interactive function that, in the "canonical" case, selects the window that was selected before the currently selected one1.
But my plan founders immediately on ...
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Flatten parallel nested window trees
Sometimes when moving windows around in emacs, it will get to a state where there is a horizontal or vertical stack of windows which appears to be a single list, but is actually made up of multiple ...
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In Magit, the command `magit-status` opens the buffer with the status buffer. Is there some similar command to do the same but with the Slime's REPL?
I am using Emacs powered with Slime to write code on Common Lisp (SBCL). In addition, I am also using magit.
Magit has a handy command called magit-status (C-x g). I use it a lot and I tend to have 2 ...
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How to automatically downscale an image to window width in org-mode?
I use org-toggle-inline-images to directly view linked images in org-mode files. Unfortunately, depending on resolution, format and size, images often are too wide for the window (especially in ...
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How to dynamically replace certain text, by evaluating a function on change in current buffer
I am trying to figure out how to use window-change-functions refer here for official documentation to be able to run a function to replace certain text within the current buffer at every change of the ...
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windmove doesn't recognize S-<up> and S-<down> on Macbook Terminal
GNU Emacs 27.2 in Mac OS terminal (11.4 Big Sur).
Started with
(windmove-default-keybindings)
and found that S-<up> and S-<down> behaved just as <up> and <down>, as if the ...
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