From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Samuel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making the width of three windows equal Date: 2 Aug 2005 19:13:24 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1123035204.009217.187300@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <87pssv3kai.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123035574 17157 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2005 02:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 03 04:19:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E08p5-000655-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 04:17:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E08rl-0002OY-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:20:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.129.64.177 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1123035209 22122 127.0.0.1 (3 Aug 2005 02:13:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:13:29 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87pssv3kai.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.129.64.177; posting-account=eZhnegwAAACv7MlNAYCWQj56Ci6JAeVg Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132858 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28372 Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > > When opening multiple (three) vertically split windows by pressing C-x 3 > > twice, one of the windows takes up 50% of the screen width and the other > > two 25% each. I am looking for an equivalent to what C-x + does for > > horizontally split windows, that is, making each of them take up 33% of > > the terminal width. Is there a shortcut to do this? > > Since balance-windows doesn't work vertically (or is it > horizontally?), your best bet is to fetch its sources and to edit them > to implement horizontal (or is it vertical?) window balancing. Thanks, Pascal. (I had a look at the balance-windows source now, but geesh, this language is just out of my range.) -Samuel