Questions tagged [window-splitting]
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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How to open two files in two frames on startup?
Here's what I'm trying to make happen: on startup, I want emacs to split vertically into two windows displaying two different files, with my to-do list on the left side of the screen and my notes on ...
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Aquamacs: C-x 4 b switches to a different desktop if buffer is already displayed
In Aquamacs, I frequently find myself being yanked out of my focus, concretely and figuratively, if I try to view a buffer which is already displayed in a different frame, often on another desktop.
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Is there a way to split-window-right and switch-to-buffer / find-file in single command?
As described in question title.
Closest solution that I can find is to use ido-find-file-other-window orido-switch-buffer-other-windew, but these create a horizontal split by default, and if a ...
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Open code snippet from org-mode with C-' in a vertical split instead of an horizontal one
In org-mode, I open a code snippet with C-' (org-edit-special) to edit it in a separate split. By default, it opens it in a horizontal split.
Is there a way to open a code snippet from org-mode with ...
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How prevent `display-buffer` from opening a specific buffer in a new window if and only if it is shown in another frame
I want the *compilation* buffer to not pop up in my main frame when I have it in another frame already open. However if the buffer is not shown anywhere, I do want it to pop up in a new window of the ...
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How to display *help* buffers below one specific window?
I am (really) new in Emacs and ESS, and I am currently trying to customize my environment.
The default settings of ESS[R] are convenient for me, since ESS[R] organizes the windows as follows:
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open buffers from sr-speedbar in previously active window instead of splitting window
I'm using sr-speedbar to manage a list of buffers. After M-x sr-speedbar-toggle, I switch to the speedbar window, press b to switch into Quick Buffer mode, and then press Enter to select a buffer. In ...
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How to move windows?
How can I move a window from being a horizontal split down below all other windows to being a vertical split panel on the left? I don't want to move buffer contents - I want to move the actual window.
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Restore Spacemacs project windows layouts
Opening a project I would like the windows restored as I left them. E.g.
tests.py on the left and a terminal /home/projectdir/>$ on the right:
|-----------+-----------|
| tests.py | >$_ |...
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Restoring windows with Desktop when running Emacs inside a terminal? [duplicate]
Maybe a silly question: I'm using desktop for saving Emacs' sessions. I've set
(setq desktop-restore-frames t)
(desktop-save-mode 0)
So windows and frames state is supposed to be saved, and I'm ...
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Open org-mode links to info in different window?
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to open links to info pages (Emacs manual) from org-mode without changing the current buffer to that info page?
The reason I would like to do this is because I ...
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elisp: create window layout with specific cycling order
I'd like to create a window layout like so:
-----------|--------------
a | b
-----------|--------------
d | c
-----------|--------------
This is so that I can cycle from a ->...
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Display annotation contents horizontally in pdf-tools *with* live-preview
When looking at annotations with the pdf-annot-list-annotations command from the pdf-tools package, I prefer to preview my annotation contents in a separate buffer, which is the default behavior. ...
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buffer opens in window below if font size is changed
In my config file I changed the line
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 100)
to
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 90)
and suddenly, when I try to open a file in a separate vertical ...
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Why is cursor moving after a save?
When working with the same buffer in multiple windows within one frame, it seems like the location of the cursor in, say, window A gets inadvertently set as a marker such that right after the buffer ...
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Ada mode : navigating through code, always open in new window
when I navigate in ada-mode, The first time that I press C-cC-d (ada-goto-declaration), Emacs divide vertically the frame, and open the new file in the other window.
Most times, every C-cC-d press, ...
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Save whole emacs session
After closing emacs I would like to restore the same session I left, which includes opened windows, font sizes within the windows and open buffers.
I'm aware there's a lot out there, but most things ...
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Copy-paste text among Split Window Buffers
Say I have split my main Emacs Window into 2 : LEFT and RIGHT.
My cursor is currently in LEFT. How do I copy some text from LEFT to RIGHT without going to the RIGHT window?
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How can I startup Spacemacs with several windows?
I'd like to have two windows opened (vertical split) after startup of Spacemacs. How do I have to configure .spacemacs?
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how can I programatically transition between those 2 window layouts?
I am trying to implement this window transition
a/ b/
--------- -------------
| 1 | 2 | | | 1 | 2 |
--------- -> | 0 |-------|
| 3 | 4 | | | 3 | 4 |
--------- ...
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Switch between horizontal and vertical splitting?
From time to time, by mistake, I split my screen vertically C-x 3 (binded to split-window-right), whereas I originally wanted a horizontal splitting C-x 2 (binded to split-window-below).
Question: is ...
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Eshell command in another window keeping focus in the working one
Ho can I run an eshell command in another window keeping focus in the working one?
Let's say I'm scanning a buffer searching for a regexp (to be precise an URL) and every time I find it I want to ...
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migrated from emacs 25 to 26.1: cannot force find-file/counsel-projectile-find-file to always open buffer in current window
Recently I migrated from emacs 25 to 26.1. Before I reached the window behaviour, where I could always open a file at the window at point.
The most simple case to illustrate undesired behaviour: I ...
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Force new window to open to the left or right
I have two frames open with the following window splits:
Frame 1 Frame 2
|---+---+ |------|
|a |b | |d |
| | | | |
|---+---+ | |
|c | | |
|---+---+ |------|
Say that ...
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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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Emacs 26-1 Problems : find-file and neotree
The Problems:
I just did a full re-install to Fedora 29, which included the dnf install emacs
command. This installed emacs 26-1; formerly I was using emacs 25.2. Formerly,
my emacs initialization ...
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Which hooks guarantee proper (re)displaying of windows after windows configuration is changed?
I'm writing a simple minor mode (for personal use) which dynamically sets fringes according to current window width. I added a dedicated function to those hooks:
window-configuration-change-hook
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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 force new `shell` to appear in current window?
Whenever I run M-x shell, a buffer appears almost randomly somewhere - splitting current windows as it sees fit. I cannot work out the logic behind it.
The docstring says:
(shell &optional ...
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Icicles: Why candidates are on the right side?
windows 10 , Emacs 26.1, Icicles
In my init.el
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/icicles")
(require 'icicles)
(icy-mode 1)
And when I type the candidates are show on the right side.
Why?
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Have compilation errors / grep match reuse current frame/window without ever splitting it?
I have searched in a number of places (1, 2, 3, 4) even looked at the e-lisp source files and could not figure out how to do, so I ask.
Context
I have bound next-error to a key. I'm in some source ...
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How fast swap between buffers?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
I have 4 open buffers.
Here
To switch from buffer "file_1.txt" to buffer "file_2.txt" I use standard command windmove-right. It is bound to <M-right>.
To switch from ...
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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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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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Minimap avoiding change window
Recently I started using minimap-mode, but it has been a bit buggy as sometimes when I split the window and open two different buffers, it won't let me go back to a buffer with code (and minimap).
So ...
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Open some file types in new frame
I use split-frame (split-window-right in setup) for most things but would like Emacs to open some file types (specifically PDF files) in a new frame when using find-file.
Other files (for example ....
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Split window with new buffer and spawn a new shell in same (possibly remote) directory as old buffer
In tmux, I can press some key combination and split the current window into two windows in the same directory.
I've tried the split-window-* function, but found it just duplicates the same buffer in ...
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Splitting window vertically (rather than horizontally) when searching in Dired
My Emacs Dired window is wider than it is tall. After marking some files (say %m *.cpp) in Dired and running M-x dired-do-find-regexp <REGEXP> (A), I find myself in split-window-below (ex split-...
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How to resize vertical split with mouse when using telephone-line instead of mode-line?
According to this StackOverflow answer, one can resize a vertical split with the mouse by dragging the mode-line in a specific spot.
I'm using telephone-line and can't find any spot on there to ...
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calc splits wrong window.
I have a problem with using calc. When I have two windows open in emacs, split vertically, calc frequently opens in the wrong window. Here's a demonstration of the problem that I ran with emacs -Q.
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emacs split window doesn't avoid other pane content
I'll get terminology wrong here, so be gentle with that (only).
cd ~/src/
./emacs *
C-x 2
So I've got two windows here, one above the other, and a bunch of files in my buffer list (more than 2). ...
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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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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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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 force 'Ctrl-X, Ctrl-B' to always split vertically?
Once upon a time, Choose Window (invoked by C-x C-b) used to always split the window vertically.
Starting from a certain Emacs version (I can't recall which one), that split is now either vertical or ...
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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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split window horizontally with 1:2
I can set below variable to enable horizontal split window:
(setq split-height-threshold nil)
(setq split-width-threshold 160)
But currently, it will split 1:1, but I wish it split with 1:2, the ...
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How to open multiple files without automatically activating the “Buffer List” split?
Running emacs with multiple files automatically opens the "Buffer List" split-window.
eg:
emacs -Q *.txt
Opens a split window, one which contains a list of buffers.
How can multiple files be ...
