From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question about 3rd emacs Buffer Window area. Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:00:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317970789 21217 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 06:59:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:59:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 08:59:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4PH-00029w-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4PH-0003m7-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4PD-0003lv-Ag for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4PB-0000VB-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4PB-0000V5-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4P9-00028I-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:35 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.25.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:35 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82495 Archived-At: On 10/6/11 7:24 PM, Me Myself and I wrote: > I now that I can use C-x b to open a new buffer window, > > M-x shell gives me access to the Linux shell, > and that C-x o switches buffers. > > How do I open 3 buffer windows, such that I have one file editor (C-x C-f) > and two shell buffers all simultaneously? C-x C-f ; M-x find-file f o o . t x t RET ; Find file: prompt x s h e l l RET ; M-x shell C-x 4 b ; M-x switch-to-buffer-other-window RET ; Switch to buffer in other window: prompt C-u x s h e l l RET ; C-u M-x shell RET ; Shell buffer (default *shell*<2>): prompt C-x 2 ; M-x split-window-vertically C-x b ; M-x switch-to-buffer RET ; Switch to buffer: prompt C-x + ; M-x balance-windows -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA