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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows)
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 22:57:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481F74AE.6050002@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1w4gmu73.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

 >>>1. even though I can imagine that I might want to have one 160-char-wide
 >>>window every once in a while, by far the more common situation would
 >>>be wanting to preserve 2 columns.  Thus I would want C-x 1 to delete
 >>>all other windows in the current column and leave the other column
 >>>intact (as if the other column were a separate frame glued to this
 >>>one side by side)
 >
 > The proposal to add a notion of `group' of windows (via a `group'
 > window property) would do exactly what you want, AFAICT, although it's
 > currently designed with the intention to mimick some IDEs and to provide
 > features similar to what ECB needs.

I'm currently considering an option called max-window-height|width.
Suggestions welcome.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 18:16 C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows) Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 18:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-05 19:25   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:57     ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-05-05 20:13   ` Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 20:26     ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-05 20:57       ` martin rudalics
2008-05-05 21:19         ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 21:50           ` martin rudalics
2008-05-05 21:35       ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-06  1:32 ` David Hansen

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