From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheFlyingDutchman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: split buffers Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: 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 1291853962 21442 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 00:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 00:19:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 01:19:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQUEA-0000VD-IX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:19:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQUE9-0002NN-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:19:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s24g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.36.158.158 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279761704 1946 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2010 01:21:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s24g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.36.158.158; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; AskTbBT5/5.8.0.12304),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179898 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76284 Archived-At: On Jul 21, 2:31=A0pm, Peter Keller wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to emacs, but have been using it for a while to write Lisp. > > My question is: > > In vim, one can have a tab that is split. When one moves from that tab > to another, both portions of the split tab are replaced by the whole > of the next tab (which in and of itself could be split 0-N times). > > In emacs, if I split the buffer with C-x 2, I can only change the > exact buffer I'm in with C-x C- and such. > > Is there a way to mimic the split tab behavior in vim with emacs buffers? > > Thank you. > > -pete If I understand correctly, you need to use frames. You can create new frames from the menu (Menu-Bar->File->New Frame) or "C-x 5 2". Then you can split those frames into multiple windows. To move between frames you use (Menu-Bar->Buffers->Frames->). There is likely a way to move between frames with the keyboard (or create the capability) but I don't know what it is.