🚀 go-pugleaf

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 <x> <y> ... <z>" 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 <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?

-wolfgang
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