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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Universal/prefix argument for "other window" redirection?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:56:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy2ds6d86.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4977CD5270EB64C88947AD7496749@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (Arthur Miller's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:37:30 +0200")

> 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 :))?

OT1H you mention universal-prefix (which only affects the very next
command) but OTOH you say "all the cursor motion stuff ...".

For the "all the cursor ..." case, it seems you're saying all the
commands should operate on the other window, which is exactly what you
get after `C-x o`, so your description needs more details to know what
you really mean.

I don't think there's already what you want.
Gregory's code is a workable starting point for the "just the next
command" case.  Another direction might be the `vcursor.el` approach.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 14:56 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 [this message]
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
2021-04-08 21:14   ` Arthur Miller

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