From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 22:57:18 +0200 Message-ID: <481F74AE.6050002@gmx.at> References: <87hcdcio9y.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> 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: ger.gmane.org 1210021156 12854 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 20:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 22:59:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt7mo-0001mz-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:59:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt7m6-00036n-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt7kn-0002Zg-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt7kl-0002Y1-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40854 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt7kl-0002Xw-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt7kl-0004tp-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 May 2008 20:57:41 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-38-126.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.38.126]) [62.47.38.126] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 05 May 2008 22:57:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18zr24FKGMzQ2k9+s80j85MioUUNSAuQPBEaazCqc 5KttuVsQ2dsmxn User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96538 Archived-At: >>>1. even though I can imagine that I might want to have one 160-char-wide >>>window every once in a while, by far the more common situation would >>>be wanting to preserve 2 columns. Thus I would want C-x 1 to delete >>>all other windows in the current column and leave the other column >>>intact (as if the other column were a separate frame glued to this >>>one side by side) > > The proposal to add a notion of `group' of windows (via a `group' > window property) would do exactly what you want, AFAICT, although it's > currently designed with the intention to mimick some IDEs and to provide > features similar to what ECB needs. I'm currently considering an option called max-window-height|width. Suggestions welcome.