Friday, March 05, 2010

emacs windows command and work flow

we cant split windows to have more windows and we can have different windows to have the same buffer or different buffers.

splitting windows:
cx 2 split vertically
cx 3 split horizontally

Using other windwos
cx o select next window

Displaying in another window
cx 4 b select buffer in next window and move to the next window
cx 4 co select buffer in next window
cx 4 f open file in next window
cx 4 d open dir in next window
cx 4 m start composing a mail message in another window
cx 4 . find a tag in the current tag table in another window
cx 4 r open a file readonly in the next window.

Deleting and Rearranging Windows
cx 0 kill the current window
cx 1 maximize the current window
cx ^ make selected window taller
cx } make selected window wider

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