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From: rk@lexicon.UUCP (Bob Kukura)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs POLL: where should killed window space go?
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Date: 16 Jan 89 15:00:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu's message of 14 Jan 89 01:12:14 GMT

In article <8758@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:

   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.

[...]

   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 <x> <y> ... <z>" command would also be
   useful here for adjusting the relative size of more than two windows.

A command that declared the maximum size buffer that a window needs
would be useful in these kinds of situations, and wouldn't require the
user to resize the windows manually as often.  Some modes might set
the size limit automatically.

   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 <buffer-name>" command would be
   handy.  Or perhaps a window-number on the mode-line and a "\C-x j <n>"
   command to get to it?

Me too.  I like the window number idea.

   -wolfgang
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