From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows?
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:58:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-C2B81B.23585809122008@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2296.1228815867.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.2296.1228815867.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:35 AM, seberino@spawar.navy.mil
> <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 11:44 am, Ian Eure <i...@digg.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Try:
> >> C-x 2 - split-window-vertically
> >> C-x 3 - split-window-horizontally
> >>
> >> - Ian
> >
> > That works.....doing switch-to-buffer-other-window multiple times does
> > not.
>
> It is not supposed to split the current window. Do you think the doc
> string need to be enhanced?
Or the name? "other-window" seems pretty obvious to me that it will use
the other window that's already there. The only time it needs to create
a new window is when there isn't any "other" window.
Sounds like he wants a function switch-to-buffer-new-window that always
splits the window. Take a look at the source code of
switch-to-buffer-other-window, I think it should be pretty easy to write
a command that splits the window unconditionally.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 19:02 Why can only view at most TWO windows? seberino
2008-12-08 19:07 ` Charles Sebold
2008-12-08 19:09 ` Charles Sebold
2008-12-08 19:44 ` Ian Eure
[not found] ` <mailman.2252.1228765492.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-09 6:35 ` seberino
2008-12-09 9:44 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2296.1228815867.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-10 4:58 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-12-10 6:43 ` seberino
2008-12-11 6:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-12-10 6:43 ` seberino
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