The Emacs Window Management Almanac
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The Emacs Window Management Almanac
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Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#2That is a good exploration. I am on a mobile device right now but I can’t wait to try:
ace-window and ace-window-display-mode
frames-only-mode
I admit my guilt: in about 40 years of using Emacs I mostly have always just used next-window, creating new windows under or next to, and when working on remote servers relying on tmux.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#3That is a good exploration. I am on a mobile device right now but I can’t wait to try: ace-window and ace-window-display-mode frames-only-mode I admit my guilt: in about 40 years of using Emacs I mostly have always just used next-window, creating new windows under or next to, and when working on remote servers relying on tmux.
I'm the same, 30 years & C-x 1/2/3 C-x o, and that's about the extent of it.
But tbh it's actually pretty powerful and sufficient for my purposes and I wish the various tiling window managers were just that.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#4That is a good exploration. I am on a mobile device right now but I can’t wait to try: ace-window and ace-window-display-mode frames-only-mode I admit my guilt: in about 40 years of using Emacs I mostly have always just used next-window, creating new windows under or next to, and when working on remote servers relying on tmux.
I'm the same, 30 years & C-x 1/2/3 C-x o, and that's about the extent of it. But tbh it's actually pretty powerful and sufficient for my purposes and I wish the various tiling window managers were just that.
EXWM is ;). I used it for about a year, but ultimately found the performance, and in particular a low language server locking up the window manager, unacceptable.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm the same, 30 years & C-x 1/2/3 C-x o, and that's about the extent of it. But tbh it's actually pretty powerful and sufficient for my purposes and I wish the various tiling window managers were just that.
EXWM is ;). I used it for about a year, but ultimately found the performance, and in particular a low language server locking up the window manager, unacceptable.
I just switched to exwm and I'm curious if the article will teach me some tricks which might be useful there. My initial experience is good but it is still a bit rough around the edges. In other words, I have not yet found my best configuration and workflows.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#6nice writeup, I'd like to share a great complementary package that has been indispensable for me: zygospore
"zygospore lets you revert C-x 1 (delete-other-window) by pressing C-x 1 again"
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#7That is a good exploration. I am on a mobile device right now but I can’t wait to try: ace-window and ace-window-display-mode frames-only-mode I admit my guilt: in about 40 years of using Emacs I mostly have always just used next-window, creating new windows under or next to, and when working on remote servers relying on tmux.
I'm the same, 30 years & C-x 1/2/3 C-x o, and that's about the extent of it. But tbh it's actually pretty powerful and sufficient for my purposes and I wish the various tiling window managers were just that.
I’ve also been doing exactly that for 20 years and will probably do it for 20 more years :) it works everywhere and is perfectly adequate and flexible!
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#8nice writeup, I'd like to share a great complementary package that has been indispensable for me: zygospore "zygospore lets you revert C-x 1 (delete-other-window) by pressing C-x 1 again" https://github.com/LouisKottmann/zygospore.el
Ideally, ahouldn’t it be undo?
I suppose that would be weird, but c-u c-x 1 would be consistent.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#9I configure my Emacs to avoid splitting the frame into multiple windows -- similar to how a web browser never splits the browser window into multiple viewports. (Also my Emacs never makes a second frame.)
(The way I achieve that has changed over the years because the old way stops working.)
The way I do it now, the frame does split in some situations (e.g., when Emacs shows me a *Completions* buffer) but AFAICR I never need to manually invoke the delete-window command to get rid of the second window: it always goes away by itself.
Re: The Emacs Window Management Almanac
#10That is a good exploration. I am on a mobile device right now but I can’t wait to try: ace-window and ace-window-display-mode frames-only-mode I admit my guilt: in about 40 years of using Emacs I mostly have always just used next-window, creating new windows under or next to, and when working on remote servers relying on tmux.
I'm the same, 30 years & C-x 1/2/3 C-x o, and that's about the extent of it. But tbh it's actually pretty powerful and sufficient for my purposes and I wish the various tiling window managers were just that.
Yes. Same for me as well. It just works and is easy for my fingers to remember without consciously thinking about it.