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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What's the difference between a buffer, a file, a window, and a frame?
When posing questions on this site, people sometimes talk about "windows" when they mean "frames," and "buffers" or "files" when they mean "windows." So:
Q: What is the difference between a buffer, ...
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How can I block a frame from being split?
Currently I work with ruby and rspec. I really like the idea of having a separate frame in another monitor showing me the compilation buffer. My current setup uses a 'code' frame (in which I do actual ...
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Switching between window layouts
When I configure a custom layout and then just need to temporary look into one file fullscreen and once I want that layout back - I need manually to reflow it.
I would like a plugin/elisp code to ...
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How do I force a specific buffer to open in a new window?
When committing changes in Magit, it is useful to have the diff view open while adding details about the commit.
In Magit, we see the diff in the *magit ..* buffer. When you hit cc while the cursor ...
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How to display a help buffer/window full frame size (not full screen)
I sometimes want to display information in Help buffer style, so I have been using code like this:
(with-help-window (help-buffer)
(princ "Type q to exit this help buffer.\n\n")
(princ result))
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How to switch between windows quickly?
How do I switch between windows quickly?
I often have multiple windows open and need to switch between them. Right now, I use C-x o to get to the one I want. Is there a more efficient workflow ...
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Hide *compilation* window
It is annoying to see the compilation window appear when it is successful. How to remove that automatically?
I want to see it though if it is not successful.
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How to control in which window a buffer is displayed?
Q: how can I control which window org-deadline uses to display the calendar?
org-deadline temporarily pops up the calendar buffer in a window when setting a deadline, and then closes it again after ...
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desktop-save-mode fails to save window layout
I use Emacs 24.5.1 on OS X in terminal mode.
I intend to use desktop-save-mode to save and restore window layout (i.e. positions of buffer windows) upon exiting and starting Emacs.
From this answer ...
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Is there a generic toggle-previous-window function?
Some major modes have code and key-bindings to toggle focus back and forth between their inferior processes and the major-mode buffer. Is there an Emacs function which lets me do this between the ...
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Activate a mode when only one window is displayed
I'm trying to enable/disable visual-fill-column when there is one window/multiple windows.
Since I don't like trying it on my own before asking, here is the solution I came up with:
(defun my-visual-...
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How can I prevent a command from using specific windows?
Typically, I have a frame split into four windows, where two at the bottom are dedicated to my *compilation* and *grep* buffers. When browsing compilation errors, next-error will eventually replace my ...
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Change highlight color when window isn't in focus?
I'm using hl-mode as a minor mode for deft. How do I make the highlighted line change color (e.g. to gray) when the deft window isn't the current window, and then back to the default highlight color ...
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save-excursion doesn't restore the currently visible buffer?
From the save-excursion docstring:
Save point, mark, and current buffer; execute BODY; restore those things.
My understanding was that the restored buffer would again be visible following the ...
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Open a file from the desktop in a single window (without home screen splitscreen)
When I open a file from the context menu by choosing "Open with Emacs", Emacs starts with a horizontal splitscreen. The first window shows the desired file and the other one the home screen.
Is it ...
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How to update window-start without calling redisplay?
While debugging swiper I've encountered a situation when
the point is changed inside with-selected-window, but window-start isn't updated.
This can be annoying, because I need the up-to-date window ...
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Inconsistent point when inserting into a buffer that is visible in another frame
While working on a sort of "background processing" function, I noticed that my logs would print backwards if the buffer was in another frame. I cannot seem to figure out why it is happening.
I am not ...
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How to change Emacs windows from vertical split to horizontal split?
Window A
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Window B
Is there a way to switch to
Window A : Window B
Is there a way to switch view without closing windows?
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Synchronized scrolling in two windows
Is there a way to reflect the navigation commands in the current window in another visible window. I have two related LaTeX files displayed in two windows and would like to scroll through them ...
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How to Change size of split screen emacs windows?
If I have Emacs split horizontally and on top I'm editing elisp code and on the bottom I am in the shell. By default, Emacs makes the two windows equal in size, but I'd like the shell buffer smaller. ...
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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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"Pop" a window into a frame
Often, I my windows get automatically split until I arbitrarily decide that the current frame does not have enough real-estate for them all. When this occurs, I manually delete a window, create a ...
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Defining the window pointed by "other-window"
In emacs, more often than i like, I end up with 4 windows or more.
I'll use that example:
+--------|-----------+
| | |
| 1 | 2 |
| | |
+--------+-----...
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Async shell process buffer always clobbers window arrangement
I frequently launch external programs from emacs using M-!, such as Firefox or Evince, etc. Whenever I do, a buffer pops up full of results for the process, which clobbers whatever else I've got going ...
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Forcing Emacs Layout
(This is a followup and different from Emacs Fixed Layout )
High Level
My typical Emacs Working environment is:
+------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| NeoTree | ...
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Open file in a specific window
Very similar to this question. I'm using helm-projectile to find files. My Emacs frame is divided in three vertical column windows. In one of the windows I have an open file from the project I'm ...
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Is there a way to make the "o" keypress of other-window <C-x><C-o> repeatable?
Question is as stated in the title.
Instead of using various packages for switching windows, it might be simpler to make <C-x><C-o> behave like <C-x><C-+>, such that repeated ...
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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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How to close help buffer without moving to it?
I often use Emacs' help buffers, via e.g. C-h k.
Buffer *Help* is displayed in another window, and that window is not selected. In order to close the *Help* buffer, I need to switch windows via C-x o ...
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Is there a better way to override opening window in compilation-goto-locus?
I don't like the behavior of compilation-goto-locus (bound to Enter in a *compilation* or *grep* buffer), where it splits the window and jumps to the line in a new window. I prefer the *compilation*/*...
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How can I force emacs to never split frames, in particular for compile-goto-error?
I want emacs to always display new buffers in the current frame, but always taking the whole frame, rather than splitting it.
I currently have customized display-buffer-alist to the following
'(...
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Display list of words along bottom of frame?
I'd like to display 3 lists of words on separate lines horizontally along the bottom (although top would work too) of every emacs frame I have open. I've thought of 6 ways to do this, and they all ...
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How to setup default windows at startup?
Every time I open up Emacs I tend to set up 3 windows by doing C-x 3 (split-window-right) and then C-x2 (split-window-below). After that I have to switch to each window to open the files I want to ...
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Switch window split orientation, fastest way
Say you have two buffers open like so:
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buffer 1 | buffer 2 |
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Open file in new window after searching it with helm
As written in A Package in a league of its own: Helm there's a way to
search for a file using Helm
decide after searching whether open it in same or other window
My question is: How?
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Single mode line for all windows
Is it possible to have only one mode line (sometimes referred as "statusbar") for all windows?
I'd like to make this single mode line show information about the currently selected buffer.
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How can I prevent gdb *input/output* buffer from aggressively popping up in frame?
When using gdb with M-x gdb, the *input/output* buffer always pops up aggressively in any frame which has focus and isn't already displaying it. I would like the *input/output* buffer to stay quietly ...
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Split Window at outermost border
I'm looking for a way to add a new full-height window split to an existing (splitted) window configuration. Because I don't know how to explain it properly I'll just post some ASCII graphics showing ...
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How can I tell Emacs to always open help buffers in the current window?
When looking up documentation with describe-function, Emacs display the docstring in a temporary help buffer. I want this buffer to replace current window.
So far, I've customized help-window-select ...
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Hook that indicates when the cursor has been moved by scrolling
Inspired by this question: Let Emacs move the cursor off-screen, I am considering writing a minor mode that will keep the cursor in a fixed position that is not affected by scrolling operations. I ...
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Pick a window for ido-find-file-other-window and ido-switch-buffer-other-window
Thanks to @itsjeyd, I've come to love ace-window, but now I want more.
I use C-x 4 f and C-x 4 b to invoke the commands ido-find-file-other-window and ido-switch-buffer-other-window, but I want to ...
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Open org link in the same window
When I follow from one Org file to another via a link, the new file appears in alternative window if there is one. Is there a way to follow links staying in the same window?
For example, I use a frame ...
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Controlling window locations for files visited by Dired [duplicate]
Very often I need to open a file in dired in other window and for that dired-find-file-other-window comes handy, but sometimes I want to open file in specific split - vertical or horizontal. So if I ...
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How to preserve the visual height of the cursor after an operation?
Q: How do I find the visual line number of point (so that I can restore it after an operation)?
By “visual line number”, I'm referring to the number N of lines
between the top of the window (or the ...
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Attempt to delete minibuffer or sole ordinary window
I have a daemonized emacs, and I'm able to close any emacs frame, even the last one, using the window manager or old good C-x C-c, just to be able to retrieve all my buffers when i ask the daemon for ...
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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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Preventing mouse clicks in inactive windows from repositioning the cursor
When I have Emacs (24.4, Mac OS, NS build) in the foreground, I often have many windows open in one frame. I sometimes want to switch windows by clicking in an inactive window. By default, this calls ...
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Customizing the layout of gdb-many-windows
I really like all of the information that is available to me when I run GUD/GDB with gdb-many-windows, but I would like to be able to move the windows around some. Specifically I would like to use ...
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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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Customizing the line separating windows
After
% emacs -q
(split-window-right)
(scroll-bar-mode 0)
(fringe-mode 0)
there is still a pixel-wide line separating the two windows. What is this
line called, and how can I change its width and ...
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