From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jamie Beardslee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Scratch buffer on either side of current buffer Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:02:44 +1300 Message-ID: <87a6vbz4i3.fsf@jamzattack.xyz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32950"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:FOxkW5JYxDZYMmhusrcxFcMDfxs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 06:03:17 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgL3L-0008TO-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:03:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49568 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgL3L-00009a-10 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgL32-00009G-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:42290 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgL31-0003WK-25 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgL2w-000869-PW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:02:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FROM_SUSPICIOUS_NTLD=0.5, FROM_SUSPICIOUS_NTLD_FP=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125435 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech writes: > I want to have a window-buffer (containing *scratch*) on each side of > my current buffer. Here, try this: (defun weird-window-configuration-please (&optional width) "Split the frame into three windows. The current buffer is placed in the middle, and the \"*scratch\" buffer is placed on either side, with WIDTH columns. WIDTH is 80 by default, and can be specified by a prefix argument (C-u)." (interactive (list (when current-prefix-arg (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)))) (let ((buffer (current-buffer)) (scratch (get-buffer-create "*scratch*")) (width (or width 80))) (delete-other-windows) (with-selected-window (split-window nil (- width) 'left) (switch-to-buffer scratch)) (with-selected-window (split-window nil width 'right) (switch-to-buffer scratch)))) -- Jamie