Sacha Chua writes: > 2024-05-13 Emacs news > > * Navigation: > > * karthinks - The Emacs Window Management Almanac (Reddit, HN, > lobste.rs,
My take: >> usually clockwise from the current one Not really - the manual describes the order simply (just like "reading" itself, of a magazine/newspaper having the # of columns depending on how it was split, and any excepted windows), and it was easy for me to make a reflex of. Tip: one often has to have an eye on the window bottoms as well. >> more convenient key like M-o. This'll mess with some defaults (like in Gnus *Server* and Diff), won't work with term-mode etc. OOTB (only C-x/c remains special), and more importantly, requires the M- depressed for the whole cycling without the direction reversible easily if overshot. M- is also harder for me than C- (for which I use the palm on a normal keyboard). >> Windmove But this means that rather than the reflex of 'C-<n> C-x o' and back with yours truly's conveniently bound get-mru-window-other-than-by-other-window [1], or even 'O' with a distance-gauging reflex (with my customization in bug#78803), I have to _look_ again, or at least kinda remember where I was, spatially. The reflex is a partially-developed one for the: >> digit arguments to skip windows ...for the arrangements that I usually end up with (black-belt status might take a year - if useful at all). >> From O(n) (other-window) to I never find myself needing more than that - my window count is limited: tasks are separated using frames (primarily for their independent buffer ordering) and the newish tab-bar-mode at a secondary level (if such separate ordering is thought unnecessary/inappropriate) with the occassional use of 'C-x w ^ t'. >> It adds window numbers Worse, from my POV: more sensory duties. >> The advantanges of using the mouse for window management Non-starter for me. :-) Besides the keeping sight of the pointer, the finesse needed seems to me a way more unnatural ask of the forearms and wrists (anything comparable among our hunter-gatherer ancestors? Certainly not "catching a mouse"!). >> Turn on repeat-mode (M-x repeat-mode) to continue switching FTW(-dow)! 1: yes, it's more of a 'JOKE:' (progn (require 'gnus-group) (gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group "nntp+news.gmane.io:gmane.emacs.tangents" '(nntp "news.gmane.io") nil nil nil nil nil 1) (gnus-summary-goto-article "<87bjpa8tw7....@gmx.net>")) -- --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
