compare-windows and split-window-horizontally

compare-windows and split-window-horizontally

[Mickey Ferguson]

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I frequently use the compare-windows function when I've split a buffer
using split-window-vertically.  It performs great.  But if I use
split-window-horizontally instead of split-window-horizontally,
compare-windows doesn't work.  Is there a way to make it work?


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Re: compare-windows and split-window-horizontally

[Lennart Borgman]

Mickey Ferguson wrote:
>
> I frequently use the compare-windows function when I've split a buffer 
> using split-window-vertically.  It performs great.  But if I use 
> split-window-horizontally instead of split-window-horizontally, 
> compare-windows doesn't work.  Is there a way to make it work?
>
Don't know, but it will work in the next version of Emacs. There you 
will also have a very nice version of ediff to compare buffers.

RE: compare-windows and split-window-horizontally

[Mickey Ferguson]

Thank you for the information.  You gave me an idea.  I searched the
emacs source for compare-windows and found it defined in compare-w.el.
I then searched the net for compare-w.el, and found a new version at
http://www.koders.com/lisp/fid38FFF1549CE6B51544A8900E4130B96E65461450.a
spx.  I saved that code into a new compare-w.el in my site-init folder
(so I'd still have the original remaining in my lisp folder just in case
there were problems), and voila!  It works!  Thanks for inspiring my
solution, even if you didn't actually suggest it.  :-)

Lennart Borgman wrote:

>Mickey Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> I frequently use the compare-windows function when I've split a
buffer 
>> using split-window-vertically.  It performs great.  But if I use 
>> split-window-horizontally instead of split-window-horizontally, 
>> compare-windows doesn't work.  Is there a way to make it work?
>>
>Don't know, but it will work in the next version of Emacs. There you 
>will also have a very nice version of ediff to compare buffers.

Re: compare-windows and split-window-horizontally

[Kevin Rodgers]

Mickey Ferguson wrote:
> Thank you for the information.  You gave me an idea.  I searched the
> emacs source for compare-windows and found it defined in compare-w.el.
> I then searched the net for compare-w.el, and found a new version at
> http://www.koders.com/lisp/fid38FFF1549CE6B51544A8900E4130B96E65461450.a
> spx.  I saved that code into a new compare-w.el in my site-init folder
> (so I'd still have the original remaining in my lisp folder just in case
> there were problems), and voila!  It works!  Thanks for inspiring my
> solution, even if you didn't actually suggest it.  :-)

I don't know koders.com from Adam, but you can get the actual Emacs 22
code from the CVS repository at http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/

-- 
Kevin