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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Universal/prefix argument for "other window" redirection?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:04:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kggmwcj.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4977CD5270EB64C88947AD7496749@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Hello,

On Thu 08 Apr 2021 at 11:37AM +02, Arthur Miller wrote:

> Is there already a way to "automatically" modify interactive commands to
> "auto-work" in other window instead of current window?
>
> I know I can scroll other window already and switch to some buffer in
> another window with `switch-to-buffer-another-window`, I already use
> them.
>
> What I would like is to have all the cursor motion stuff, expression
> evals etc, work on in other window so I don't need to switch back and
> forth two buffers (I like to work with two buffers side-by-side). I
> wonder if there is already something I could use; prefix
> command/universal prefix whatever, to autmoatically modify behaviour of
> interactive commands involved or do I have to write my own (if it's
> possible :))?

There is already C-x 4 4 but it doesn't work for every single case.

-- 
Sean Whitton



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-08  9:37 Universal/prefix argument for "other window" redirection? Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 12:16 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-08 15:58   ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 16:11   ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 17:01     ` Yuri Khan
2021-04-08 17:42       ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 17:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 18:26           ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-09  4:18     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-09  7:58       ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 22:59   ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 23:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 19:04 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2021-04-08 21:14   ` Arthur Miller

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