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How to disable Spacemacs from auto-balancing the split windows?
Spacemacs sets window-combination-resize to t, which causes Emacs to split windows evenly. You need to add this to user-config:
(setq window-combination-resize nil)
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C-x 3 open a new buffer to the left of the current buffer
C-x 3 is bound to the function split-window-right, that splits the current window horizontally, selecting the left window. We can define a function split-window-left that calls it then change the ...
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Split Emacs Screen Three Ways
you can:
add this to your .emacs file
(split-window-right)
(other-window 1)
(split-window-below)
(other-window -1)
set it up manually any time: C-x 3 C-x o C-x 2 C-- C-x o
consider using one of ...
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desktop-save-mode fails to save window layout
In order for desktop-read (the function used to restore your desktop from a file) to restore the frameset that was saved in the desktop, it must call desktop-restoring-frameset-p (i.e., "should I ...
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Open helm search result in a new window?
C-z will bring up a new buffer with actions available to helm, and I see the following:
[f1] Open file
[f2] Open file other window
[f3] Save results in buffer
[f4] Edit search results
So you want C-...
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Prefer vertical splits over horizontal ones
In my experience this is a harder problem that one might think, because one's intuitive idea of what is sensible is not always easy to put in precise terms. I'll just describe what I've ended up with, ...
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Switching between horizontal and vertical splitting?
I use the following for this:
(defun toggle-window-split ()
(interactive)
(if (= (count-windows) 2)
(let* ((this-win-buffer (window-buffer))
(next-win-buffer (window-buffer (...
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Switching between horizontal and vertical splitting?
You can roll your own as @Tyler suggested, but there are some packages that support this. Check out the transpose-frame package on MELPA: https://melpa.org/#/transpose-frame
This handles the simple 2-...
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Workspace configuration
I use a combination of two different tools for project management:projectile, for switching between projects, and perspective, for managing frames within a given project. (The two also integrate well, ...
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How can I get a sensible split-window policy?
A little late, but because I also searched for this and could not find a ready solution:
You could define your own split-window-sensibly function.
To do so, put the following in your init.el:
(setq ...
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How to open new window below _all_ other windows?
Yes, it is.
(split-window (frame-root-window) (truncate (* (window-total-height (frame-root-window)) 0.75)) 'below)
The crucial part is (frame-root-window) which returns a window spanning the whole ...
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Completions buffer messes up window sizes
This appears to be a change in the way completion windows are created/removed. You can avoid it by setting window-combination-resize to t:
(setq window-combination-resize t)
The current default ...
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Is there a better way to override opening window in compilation-goto-locus?
You could use display-buffer-alist and dispatch on the executed
command, like this.
(defvar display-buffer-same-window-commands
'(occur-mode-goto-occurrence compile-goto-error))
(add-to-list '...
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Open vertical splits to the right
(setq evil-vsplit-window-right t)
Now, I can't tell you where to put this because I don't use Spacemacs, but I'm reasonably sure you already know.
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How to open multiple files without automatically activating the "Buffer List" split?
The user option which determines whether a Buffer Menu is displayed is inhibit-startup-buffer-menu:
inhibit-startup-buffer-menu is a variable defined in ‘startup.el’.
Its value is nil
Documentation:
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Open several files in a specifc layout with a shortcut
It will be necessary to decide ahead of time what windows/buffers will be A, B and C. The alist argument for the left window-width can be adjusted to taste -- it is presently hard-coded to 70. This ...
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emacs home made perspective: source + eshell + compilation
Here is a bare-bones minimum viable function, which I hope does what you want.
(defun wjh3pane-create-3pane-layout ()
"Create 3-pane layout of windows in the current frame.
Layout is as follows:
...
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can other-buffer in split windows select a visible buffer?
other-buffer takes an optional third argument that says it's
okay to use buffers visible in other windows. The relevant bit of
the docstring:
(other-buffer &optional BUFFER VISIBLE-OK FRAME)
...
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Minimap avoiding change window
It's been happening to me ever since I installed Emacs + Spacemacs.
After a year, I decided to fiddle with M-x customize group minimap, and just found out that the 3rd option from top to bottom, "...
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How to force new `shell` to appear in current window?
Here's what I have for this. It opens a shell in the current window.
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
'("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window)))
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Switching between horizontal and vertical splitting?
I've not tried the transpose-frame package so I don't know how it compares, but I use the package https://melpa.org/#/rotate . Combined that with https://melpa.org/#/smartrep using the config:
(...
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Copy-paste text among Split Window Buffers
Here is another opinionated implementation, it assumes 2 windows layout and isn't as sophisticated as append-to-buffer, the point is Emacs is very easy to extend.
(defun my-copy-to-next-window (b e)
...
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Open org-mode links to info in different window?
I happened on this old thread as I was trying to figure out the same headache myself, and I thought it worthwhile to share my solution. You can modify the info link handling in a few ways. One method ...
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Two windows split horizontally-> can't split vertically
Emacs is doing what you are asking it to do, unfortunately.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TransposeFrame is a package which allows you to flip the contents of your frame along the horizontal or ...
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How can I split a window so that the cursor ends up in the right / lower window?
Try this:
(defun olav-split-window-left ()
(interactive)
(select-window (split-window-right)))
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What controls whether `M-x compile` splits a frame into two windows?
compile displays the output buffer using display-buffer (as do most other commands, fwiw). You can see this in compile.el, which is included with Emacs. There is always a link from the help for a ...
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How to prevent some new buffers from splitting the window?
There is a global option to prevent splits from being opened:
(setq pop-up-windows nil)
When writing scripts you can locally assign this which won't apply outside the scope of the function, eg:
(...
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Is it possible to open links in another buffer (Org Mode)?
Please have a look at the variable org-link-frame-setup. In its documentation string you'll find the searched for information.
You might do this with the keyboard sequence C-h v and then typing above ...
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Workspace configuration
Consider using Emacs bookmarks, with Bookmark+, including, in particular:
Desktop bookmarks.
Bookmark-file and Bookmark-list bookmarks.
Dired and Dired-tree bookmarks. Search for "dired" in the ...
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Is there a way to configure default window split positions when interacting with commands?
The variables split-height-threshold and split-width-threshold can be customized to control how the function split-window-sensibly behaves:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/...
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