From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:38:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228977538 18800 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 06:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:38:58 +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 11 07:40:01 2008 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 4.50) id 1LAfDL-0005rn-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:39:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAfC9-00048a-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAfBc-00046Q-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAfBb-00045N-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36528 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAfBa-00045F-PP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45597 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAfBa-0000cL-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LAfBX-0007lz-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:38:07 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:38:07 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:38:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60546 Archived-At: seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote: > On Dec 9, 8:58 pm, Barry Margolin wrote: > >> Sounds like he wants a function switch-to-buffer-new-window that always >> splits the window. > > Yes that's exactly right. Do you mean: C-x 2 C-x 4 b If so, you could bind a convenient key to that, as a keyboard macro e.g. (global-set-key (kbd "C-c 2") (kbd "C-x 2 C-x 4 b")) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA