From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hcdcio9y.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210015525 23609 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 19:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 21:25:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt6Jr-0005KQ-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 21:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt6J9-0006oz-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt6J6-0006og-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt6J4-0006oN-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36682 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt6J4-0006oK-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt6J4-0006uJ-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:02 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkcCAF78HkjO+JghdGdsb2JhbACBU5AnASeaEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,439,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="19942872" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 05 May 2008 15:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.152.33]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id LYE96001; Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D8E757FFC; Mon, 5 May 2008 15:25:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hcdcio9y.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 20:44:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96526 Archived-At: >> When I split the emacs window horizontally and maximize the frame (X >> window), I get two 80-char-wide buffers + wide menu bar which can >> accommodate even the dired menus, which is very convenient. I see 2 >> issues with this arrangement: >> >> 1. even though I can imagine that I might want to have one 160-char-wide >> window every once in a while, by far the more common situation would >> be wanting to preserve 2 columns. Thus I would want C-x 1 to delete >> all other windows in the current column and leave the other column >> intact (as if the other column were a separate frame glued to this >> one side by side) The proposal to add a notion of `group' of windows (via a `group' window property) would do exactly what you want, AFAICT, although it's currently designed with the intention to mimick some IDEs and to provide features similar to what ECB needs. Stefan