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@fediverser.communick.devBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think that preferences for display-buffer-alist will depend on each user’s workflow. With my rule it will pop up magit-status in the currently active window, then split to show logs, diffs, etc. I don’t normally use more than two windows per frame, so it’s not too bad if it messes things up, but I haven’t noticed it doing that. If it does do something weird, I just use winner-undo until I get back to where I was. For this you have to have (winner-mode) somewhere in your config or start it manually I guess.

    For instance, if you had two windows in a vertical split like A | B with point in A, then run magit-status, A will show magit and B won’t change unless you run something like magit-log. Pressing q in the log window will restore B to what it was showing before.

    Changing this behavior is probably possible, but I’m satisfied with this so far.