From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Universal/prefix argument for "other window" redirection?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 23:14:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977B4A89343F0E3BC03257196749@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kggmwcj.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:04:28 -0700")
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu 08 Apr 2021 at 11:37AM +02, Arthur Miller wrote:
>
>> Is there already a way to "automatically" modify interactive commands to
>> "auto-work" in other window instead of current window?
>>
>> I know I can scroll other window already and switch to some buffer in
>> another window with `switch-to-buffer-another-window`, I already use
>> them.
>>
>> What I would like is to have all the cursor motion stuff, expression
>> evals etc, work on in other window so I don't need to switch back and
>> forth two buffers (I like to work with two buffers side-by-side). I
>> wonder if there is already something I could use; prefix
>> command/universal prefix whatever, to autmoatically modify behaviour of
>> interactive commands involved or do I have to write my own (if it's
>> possible :))?
>
> There is already C-x 4 4 but it doesn't work for every single case.
Indeed. I do use C-x 4 with some commands, C-x 4 C-f and C-x 4 b are some I
use sometimes. Unfortunately they move cursor over to other window too,
but I can wrap them in my own command.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-08 9:37 Universal/prefix argument for "other window" redirection? Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 12:16 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-08 15:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 16:11 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 17:01 ` Yuri Khan
2021-04-08 17:42 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 18:26 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-09 4:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-09 7:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 22:59 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 19:04 ` Sean Whitton
2021-04-08 21:14 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
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