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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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 to position ESS windows in doom-emacs similar to Rstudio?
I'm trying to pass my R coding workflow to Emacs, but I'm not completely satisfied with the windows' layout.
The basic layout to start should be the classic's Rstudio layout. In the ESS manual they ...
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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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display-buffer-reuse-frames with server-mode
I have been using display-buffer-reuse-frames for a long time. It works fine when creating multiple frames with X11, or MS-Windows.
Today I was using emacs via ssh. So I tried to use this feature, ...
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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 setup GTK emacs to open files in its current instance instead of opening a popup window?
Spent a lot of time on this and tried various solutions on the internet. Please help.
Using the following emacs version. Want to run it in GUI mode on an Ubuntu 20.04 server, same issue happens on ...
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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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Dired: How to open file with ace-window while keeping focus on dired buffer?
I have this Elisp code that allows me to use ace-window to open a file in a selected window from Dired:
(defun find-file-dired-ace-window ()
"Use ace window to select a window for opening a ...
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Is it possible to open Deft in a sidebar?
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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Don't replace my buffers with *warnings* or *message* buffers?
Current behavior:
Emacs replaces one of my buffers with *warnings* or *messages* if I have multiple buffers open.
However Emacs creates a new buffer and displays *warnings* or *messages* if I have ...
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Switch to the most recently selected buffer in the current window
I am looking for a command that would switch to the buffer I most recently selected in the current window. The command mode-line-other-buffer will switch to the most recently selected buffer not ...
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How to switch to `flycheck-list-errors` buffer/window/minibuffer?
For starters I use Doom Emacs.
Here's the scenario:
I have a python/perl/js buffer and flycheck-mode activated. Flycheck does its job and tells me that there are some errors that need attention. I go ...
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How to use C-j C-k to move window in term mode using evil?
The bindings of C-j C-k to evil-window-down[up] work well every where apart form term mode. term mode rebinds these to C-w j C-w k - this is super annoying!
How can i make term use the C-j/C-k ...
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How can i set the same file in org-mode to update only headings in one window and open headings on the other window? [duplicate]
I'd like to set a list of headings on one window and write on the other, is is possible?
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Why do many buffer switching commands in Doom Emacs skip over buffers that aren't visiting files? How can it be prevented?
In Doom Emacs many commands that replace the buffer in the current window with a different buffer will automatically select the most recent buffer that you have had open in a window. But buffers that ...
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How to run shrink-window-horizontally multiple times, or how to repeat a function multiple times in general?
I wanted to define a function to execute a command multiple times and ended up using fset:
(fset 'my-shrink (kbd "C-u 43 C-x {"))
Now, I want to include this in a function, like this:
(...
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How to distinguish a scroll from a change of buffer in a function called from ‘window-scroll-functions’?
I've written a function that recenters the point each time it makes a long jump and I added it to the hook window-scroll-functions. The length of the jump is determined by comparing the return value ...
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Delete single window frame after app quits
Some of the apps (w3m, elfeed, mu4e, to name a few) when quit leave unused frame so the other buffer shows up in their place. Over time these redundant frames pile up, so we have to delete them.
I ...
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How to make the current window display the buffer it was displaying before the current one?
For example, imagine I have two windows and three buffers. Both windows are displaying buffer 1 and I do the following,
in window 1, switch to buffer 2;
in window 2, switch to buffer 3, then to ...
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