Emacs as a tiling window manager

[mariusae]

http://monkey.org/~marius/emacs-as-a-tiling-window-manager.html

[nfg]

The main benefit of this as I see it - moving between windows (in the emacs sense of the word) - can be got by installing windmove.el ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove ). Once you've got it it's hard to go without (actually the author of this piece used windmove too!). Another indespensible tool is winner-mode ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WinnerMode ) which remembers emacs window layouts and allows you to "undo" window changes.

[nfg → nfg]

I also forgot, for fullscreen on Windows I use w32-fullscreen which comes as part of darkroom-mode: http://www.martyn.se/code/emacs/darkroom-mode.

[jrockway]

Interesting that this came up today. I've just started writing an xmonad layout manager that asks emacs where a certain buffer is physically on the screen, and then it puts a regular window on top of that. (It will also let you emacs focus and unfocus that window, so pop-to-buffer will move xmonad's focus there, if necessary; and mod-j/mod-k will delegate to emacs when necessary.)

Anyway, the idea is to let you have a full-screen emacs with a real xterm or web browser "inside" of it.

[almost → jrockway]

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I've got various experiments using the RatPoision WM (which I use anyway) but I've never managed to get precise buffer dimensions out of emacs or deal properly with focus. How far along have you got?

[mikedouglas]

Unless you patch the Cocoa display logic, the fullscreen function won't work for those using Cocoa Emacs. You can still get 90% there using maxframe.el[0].

    ;; psuedo-fullscreen
    (require 'maxframe)
    (setq mf-max-width 1440)
    
    (defun toggle-maxframe ()
      (interactive)
      (if (eq (mf-max-columns (mf-max-display-pixel-width)) (frame-width))
          (restore-frame)
        (maximize-frame)))
    (global-set-key (kbd "<s-return>") 'toggle-maxframe)

[0]: http://github.com/jmjeong/my-dot-emacs/blob/master/maxframe....

[asenchi → mikedouglas]

This will also work without the dependencies:

  (defun maximize-frame ()
    (interactive)
    (set-frame-size (selected-frame)
                    (display-pixel-width)
                    (display-pixel-height))
    (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 0))

EDIT: Should've read the help :)

[amix]

This is possible in Vim as well :D, check out -> http://amix.dk/blog/post/19403#Hacking-without-distractions

Regarding the moving between windows it can be done with following maps in Vim:

   map <C-j> <C-W>j
   map <C-k> <C-W>k
   map <C-h> <C-W>h
   map <C-l> <C-W>l

[graywh → amix]

Not really. Vim can't run a command inside a window like Emacs.

[amix → graywh]

His hack isn't about running commands inside Emacs, but Emacs in fullscreen mode and Emacs window management - and... Vim can do pretty much the same as what he shows in that blog post and in his screenshots.

[graywh → amix]

His screenshot shows at least one window running a shell.

[tedunangst → graywh]

http://www.wana.at/vimshell/

[ams6110]

Just tried in Aquamacs 1.9, seems to work, except I have the Command key as meta (because of years of having the Meta key immediately to the left of the spacebar), so the M-h binding ends up hiding Aquamacs rather than moving focus left. There should be a way to correct that because Aquamacs disables some other standard Mac "Command-" bindings when using Command as meta.

[lukaszkorecki]

Cool stuff - especially when I decided to switch to emacs from vim.

Fixes one of the annoyances (moving between splits)

[wendroid]

cor, what a lot of nonsense

    % aux/vga -l 1024x768x16
    % exec acme # instead of rio

all done