Emacs on a wide screen

Emacs on a wide screen

[Martin Kjær Jørgensen]

Hello Emacs users,

I'm running Emacs 29.4 on an X86-64 machine on GNU/Linux and SwayWM with a
27" 16:9 monitor.

I wondered if any of you have, or need, measures or features to adapt Emacs to
a wide screen view? Have you tried "center" the minibuffer output, so your
eyes don't have to travel to the bottom corner every time you invoke an
interactive command or get prompted?

Packages like olivetti-mode, golden-ratio and the likes tries to style buffers
to make them more pleasantly readable. I have even tried out vertico-posframe,
which is a good idea, but haven't worked much in it yet, and I have feeling it
will break some workflows, or maybe be obstructive. For instance, not all
prompts is shown in vertico-posframe. I know this is very much about
ergonomics and work positions too ... but still wondered enough to ask.


I have also tried this question on reddit with a few answers but wondered if
members of this list might know more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1cg465v/emacs_on_a_wide_screen/

/Martin

Re: Emacs on a wide screen

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Martin Kjær Jørgensen <me@lagy.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:08:11 +0200
> 
> I wondered if any of you have, or need, measures or features to adapt Emacs to
> a wide screen view? Have you tried "center" the minibuffer output, so your
> eyes don't have to travel to the bottom corner every time you invoke an
> interactive command or get prompted?

Did you try to use minibuffer-only frame?

Re: Emacs on a wide screen

[Marcus Harnisch]

Hi Martin

On 23/08/2024 11.08, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote:
> 27" 16:9 monitor.

Same here.

> I wondered if any of you have, or need, measures or features to adapt Emacs to
> a wide screen view? Have you tried "center" the minibuffer output, so your
> eyes don't have to travel to the bottom corner every time you invoke an
> interactive command or get prompted?

For daily work I am running Emacs in full-screen mode with no 
decorations, i.e. (menu|tool|scroll)-bars at all.

With a relatively narrow font (Iosevka), I can easily keep three 
side-by-side windows with code or log buffers. With the help of windmove 
the buffer requiring most attention would be brought into the center 
window with few keystrokes.

In case there is really only one buffer to care about, 
perfect-margin-mode serves me well. It also addresses the flush-left 
minibuffer issue.

Hope this helps,
Marcus

Re: Emacs on a wide screen

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Martin,
* Martin Kjær Jørgensen <me@lagy.org> [2024-08-23; 11:08 +02]:
> I'm running Emacs 29.4 on an X86-64 machine on GNU/Linux and SwayWM with a
> 27" 16:9 monitor.

mine is 32" and also 19:9, but:

> I wondered if any of you have, or need, measures or features to adapt Emacs to
> a wide screen view? Have you tried "center" the minibuffer output, so your
> eyes don't have to travel to the bottom corner every time you invoke an
> interactive command or get prompted?

I prefer the minibuffer output to start
at the same position at all times, so I
do not have to "search" for it.

Don't know if eye movement to the left
bottom corner as opposed to the centre
bottom is any slower / more strenuous,
but I hate searching around on my
monitor for things I suppose to find at
a specific place.

Just my 2¢, Gregor