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How to change Emacs windows from vertical split to horizontal split?
The transpose-frame package is available on MELPA as well.
Use M-x transpose-frame, or bind it to something to accomplish this.
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Quick way to close all but one window, and then revert to previous window setup?
The different sections of text you see in your Emacs are windows. You can, for example, create a new window with C-x 2. Yes, this terminology is confusing. It predates most GUI systems, so it's ...
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Open file in new window after searching it with helm
I'm using Spacemacs (on Windows 10 if that matters) with the default keybindings. This may differ from your configuration, but I found the following ways to open files via Helm-Find-Files:
Open Helm-...
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Can I split emacs the window 4 ways (vertically and horizontally) in a 4 grid layout with different files in each?
To split the window in half with a vertical divider, use the command split-window-right. To split it in half with a horizontal divider, use the command split-window-below.
For example, assume we ...
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Is there a way to change color of active window's fringe?
Since you want "To better distinguish between focused window", you can use other ways to do that instead of just changing the active window's fringe color.
I combine three ways to better distinguish ...
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Neotree window not resizable
Found a solution.
It works if I put this into my config:
(setq neo-window-fixed-size nil)
The only downside is that neotree does not remember the window width. When you switch buffers it will ...
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How can I tell Emacs to always open help buffers in the current window?
If you don't like how help-window-select works you can simply use this code:
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
'("*Help*" display-buffer-same-window))
You can change "*Help*" with a ...
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Open new window and switch to it
The following code written by Dawid Eckert and published in his github emacs.config moves the cursor to the newly created buffer:
(defun split-and-follow-horizontally ()
(interactive)
(split-...
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How to tell if more than one window is open?
You can use the built-in function one-window-p.
From C-h S one-window-p:
-- Function: one-window-p &optional no-mini all-frames
This function returns ‘t’ if the selected window is the only ...
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`switch-to-buffer` vs. `pop-to-buffer-same-window`
The difference is that pop-to-buffer-same-window doesn't insist as much about using the same window.
Historically, switch-to-buffer has been used for 2 purposes:
change which buffer is shown in the ...
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Open new window and switch to it
C-x4b runs switch-to-buffer-other-window which switches to the specified buffer (but creates it only there's only one buffer displayed).
For more sophisticated behaviour, you'd have to implement the ...
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Quick way to close all but one window, and then revert to previous window setup?
Using winner-mode is handy, but if you really just want to flip back and forth between one window and a multi-window configuration, here's something I've used before:
(defvar window-split-saved-...
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org-babel result to a separate buffer
I've looked through documentation but it seems like there's no such option.
Surprising that org does not offer :output buffer option. Maybe this is in the works for future org versions.
... place ...
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Can I split emacs the window 4 ways (vertically and horizontally) in a 4 grid layout with different files in each?
Use the split-window-xxx commands, as described in another answer. If you always want a grid of 4 windows, here's a command you could use:
(defun split-4-ways ()
(interactive)
(delete-other-...
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Remapping C-x C-b to Open List of Buffers in Same Window
I highly recommend using ibuffer in place of the default list-buffers command. This will provide not only the behaviour you're after, but also a tremendous amount of additional functionality in terms ...
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How to determine the line number of the first visible line of a window?
If the user is not getting the line number multiple times each command loop for various positions, then using line-number-at-pos is sufficient -- it will get a line number even if point is not visible:...
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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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save-excursion doesn't restore the currently visible buffer?
The current buffer need not be visible in a window.
You're looking for save-window-excursion (or quite possibly a combination of the two).
n.b. C-uC-ha ^save- will point out all of the following:
...
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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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Open org link in the same window
The behaviour for opening files is set in org-link-frame-setup.
By default, the behaviour for opening files is file-find-other-window.
The following two alternative commands will change that so that ...
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How can I adjust the fixed-width of a Neotree buffer?
You can disable neo-window-fixed-size and restart Neotree.
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One window per project
You can use perspective to manage projects. From its README:
perspective.el provides multiple workspaces (or "perspectives") for each Emacs frame. This makes it easy to work on many ...
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Open org link in the same window
This works for me:
(setq org-link-frame-setup
'((vm . vm-visit-folder-other-frame)
(vm-imap . vm-visit-imap-folder-other-frame)
(gnus . org-gnus-no-new-news)
(file . find-file)
...
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Single mode line for all windows
I've finally achieved this by hacking emacs.
You can get the source code from https://github.com/amosbird/emacs/tree/onemodeline . Basically it uses mini-window's header line to render current ...
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Open file in a specific window
Allowing user to custom action is a great feature of helm, for example, to use ace-window to select a window for buffer to switch, all you need to do is implement it as an action:
(defun helm-buffer-...
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Auto adjust window width based on number of windows?
You can define your own command for this. This allows you to use it when desired, but not change the default behavior of the original commands, keeping them useful individually if desired:
(defun ...
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How can I pin the *compilation* buffer to never leave a single frame/window
Normally, Emacs considers the selected frame the only reusable frame.
In other words, normally Emacs only searches the current ("selected") frame for windows that already contain the buffer-to-display ...
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How can I prevent gdb *input/output* buffer from aggressively popping up in frame?
As soon as emacs 25 lands, there will be a variable gdb-display-io-nopopup to fix this problem
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How to cycle between two windows when I have more than two open?
If you are already using ace-window, then you can use the command aw-flip-window to flip back and forth between two windows. By default this is bound to n in the ace-window aw-dispatch-alist.
That ...
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