From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: split buffers Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4d2309d7-bff0-410b-bb35-62d37e4a4c88@q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291849225 1491 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:00:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:00:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSzg-00073q-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSzf-0005dN-R4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:00:15 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.85.37 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279811928 27770 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2010 15:18:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.122.85.37; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179938 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76176 Archived-At: On Jul 21, 4:31=A0pm, Peter Keller wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to emacs, but have been using it for a while to write Lisp. > > My question is: > > In vim, one can have a tab that is split. When one moves from that tab > to another, both portions of the split tab are replaced by the whole > of the next tab (which in and of itself could be split 0-N times). > > In emacs, if I split the buffer with C-x 2, I can only change the > exact buffer I'm in with C-x C- and such. > > Is there a way to mimic the split tab behavior in vim with emacs buffers? > > Thank you. > > -pete If I understand you correctly, you want something like elscreen, which maintains a set of window configurations and (I think) has tabs that let you switch between them. See the Emacs Wiki for this and other similar packages. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWindows#toc4