From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on splitting windows Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:25 +0530 Message-ID: <87r5516ncu.fsf@gmail.com> References: <405BCC9ABC664EC3BFF6730E1FCF1A82@us.oracle.com> <87sjphw6cl.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312488153 27884 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 20:02:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jai Dayal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 22:02:28 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 1Qp47f-00037j-Ez for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54573 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp47e-0002ET-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2gn-0000gZ-Hz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2gm-0000bQ-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:62176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2gm-0000bL-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so1460306ywa.0 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:30:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nHkimCeYvJW4uzUEq10x66t3yv/u4RzxRREKHWEr6Rk=; b=PY+ha8iQz9R1IHgt2scm9eW63jbx5A3x8WeUBt/O4bgoQLmp1ypBn7XyA+7sXMTPL2 ThllM+iFi7NiQflsT9chgrnfcbgjxibsrJulrn0usL+DsGZ4YHE/TqlZxN0tsUrEUPSm F3elQNpVKVil0PejGEpxFYnOMRa9dpzg2ore0= Original-Received: by 10.142.161.2 with SMTP id j2mr1092031wfe.375.1312482634000; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from BALROG ([59.92.84.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d3sm2484376pbh.53.2011.08.04.11.30.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Jai Dayal's message of "Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:26:59 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.213.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:02:22 -0400 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:81882 Archived-At: Jai Dayal writes: > Yes, but that doesn't have the functionality that C-x 4 b does.=A0 C-x > 4 b opens a new window with a DIFFERENT (random?) buffer in the new > window (the point of the thread).=A0 C-x 3 opens with the same buffer > in the new window. [snip] > > C-x 3 -> split-window-side-by-side > > C-x 2 -> split-window-above-each-other > > C-x 1 -> delete-other-windows When my Emacs frame is small, C-x 4 b etc. split the window horizontally. At other times, Emacs splits it vertically. C-x 2 and C-x 3 give me explicit control over how I want the windows split. Once I've split the display as I place, I use C-x 4 b (or C-x 4 C-o etc) to open the buffer I want. -- Cheers ~vijay Gnus should be more complicated.