Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Emacs POLL: where should killed window space go? Message-ID: <8758@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 14 Jan 89 01:12:14 GMT References: <8901120359.AA07667@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Boston, Ma. Lines: 35 I would like to see ideas tossed around on the net on this topic, hence the posting instead of a reply to tower@prep.ai.mit.edu ... > Could you conduct another poll asking whether people would prefer it > if C-x 0 gave all its space to one other immediately adjacent window? > Right now the space of the window being deleted is distributed > among all the sibling windows in proportion to their current size. Emacs is really only a (great) two window editor. Managing 3 or more windows is always a real pain. One problem case is in parsing lint(1) output for cases like: "function x used inconsistently foo.c(7) :: bar.c(7)" I would really like to have 3 windows for foo.c, bar.c and *compilation*. Choosing a window to go to is a serial access nightmare. Deleting a window is even more painful, as the resulting windows usually have to be resized individually. Usually when I delete 1 of 3 windows, I usually end up resizing the 2 resulting windows to be equal size again. I therefor would vote for \C-x 0 to resize all remaining windows to be *equally* sized. A "resize-windows-to-ratio ... " command would also be useful here for adjusting the relative size of more than two windows. In addition to the above, I would also like to see an "absolute addressed" window-selection command. Right now, one has to \C-x o to the desired window. A "goto-window " command would be handy. Or perhaps a window-number on the mode-line and a "\C-x j " command to get to it? -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (617) 267-4365 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang