windmove

windmove

[Joe Corneli]

Is anyone using windmove with the current CVS emacs
(/path/to/emacs/lisp/windmove.el)?  When I loaded it and tried
windmove-down I got an error message 

windmove-do-window-select: No window down from selected window

However, that contradicted what I saw on my monitor.

Re: windmove

[Stefan Daschek]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

> Is anyone using windmove with the current CVS emacs
> (/path/to/emacs/lisp/windmove.el)?  When I loaded it and tried
> windmove-down I got an error message 
>
> windmove-do-window-select: No window down from selected window
>
> However, that contradicted what I saw on my monitor.

I noticed this problem some time ago, too. There is a workaround that
helps in many (but not all) cases:

(setq windmove-window-distance-delta 4)

You may want to experiment with the value, however '4' seems to give
the best results for me.

hth, noniq

Re: windmove

[Joe Corneli]

   > windmove-do-window-select: No window down from selected window
   >
   > However, that contradicted what I saw on my monitor.

   I noticed this problem some time ago, too. There is a workaround that
   helps in many (but not all) cases:

   (setq windmove-window-distance-delta 4)

Setting it to 4 didn't seem to work, but setting it to 2 made it
possible to run the function.  You are right that it doesn't help in
every case... for example, with my windows set up something like
this,

        .....................
        .                   .
        .    c    C         .
        .....................
        .    a    .         .
        .    A    .    B    .
        .         .         .
        .....................
        .    d    D         .
        .....................


windmode-right from `A' gets me to window `B' (good)
windmove-right from `a' puts me in window `C' (bad)
windmove-down from `c' puts me in window `A' (good)
windmove-up from `d' triggers the error message (bad)