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Window Management - share your display-buffer-alist (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by egstatsml@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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I just read Mickey's wonderful article on window management, and has given me the push I need to take control over my emacs windows/frames. I have an idea of what I will configure; maximum of two windows per frame, and if is my portrait frame split horizontally and split vertically for my landscape frame, plus some additional config for Magit. Before I take the plunge, I wanted to quickly reach out to see what other people have done for their configs to get some ideas. Figure might also be good to collect a few different configurations of window configs for people interested.

Some configs I have found on the way and will update with any suggestions people have:

  • Karthink's config, good integration with the popper package
  • emacs-pure - has some display-buffer-alist settings for magit which are of interest to me, as the built in magit methods for handling new frames isn't exactly what I want.

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Any recommendations, please feel free to share them.

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[–] skyler544@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago 
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*sly-mrepl"
               (display-buffer-at-bottom)
               (window-height . 12)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*Calendar*"
               (display-buffer-at-bottom)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*shell:"
               (display-buffer-below-selected)
               (window-height . 12)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\magit:"
               (display-buffer-same-window)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*Man"
               (display-buffer-same-window)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*Help"
               (display-buffer-same-window)))
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*helpful"
               (display-buffer-same-window)))
[–] centzon400@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago 
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*e?shell\\*"
               (display-buffer-in-side-window)
               (side . bottom)
               (slot . -1) ;; -1 == L  0 == Mid 1 == R
               (window-height . 0.33) ;; take 2/3 on bottom left
               (window-parameters
                (no-delete-other-windows . nil))))

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*\\(Backtrace\\|Compile-log\\|Messages\\|Warnings\\)\\*"
               (display-buffer-in-side-window)
               (side . bottom)
               (slot . 0)
               (window-height . 0.33)
               (window-parameters
                (no-delete-other-windows . nil))))

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*\\([Hh]elp\\|Command History\\|command-log\\)\\*"
               (display-buffer-in-side-window)
               (side . right)
               (slot . 0)
               (window-width . 80)
               (window-parameters
                (no-delete-other-windows . nil))))

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*TeX errors\\*"
               (display-buffer-in-side-window)
               (side . bottom)
               (slot . 3)
               (window-height . shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer)
               (dedicated . t)))

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             '("\\*TeX Help\\*"
               (display-buffer-in-side-window)
               (side . bottom)
               (slot . 4)
               (window-height . shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer)
               (dedicated . t)))
[–] FrostyX_cz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I wanted to make the window management as simple as possible and created this package - https://github.com/FrostyX/current-window-only . Not everybody will like it but that's okay.

[–] unhammer@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is just the default nil. I don't use any of the packages. But I prefer magit to be fullscreen and to restore back to where I was on quit:

  (setq magit-display-buffer-function 'magit-display-buffer-fullframe-status-topleft-v1)
  (setq magit-bury-buffer-function 'magit-restore-window-configuration)
[–] egstatsml@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I tried Magit full-screen but It wasnt restoring my previous windows. I didn't know about the bury buffer function so this helps me out a lot. Thanks!

[–] agumonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I never took care of setting this aspect of emacs properly. Thanks a ton