;; (C) Copyright Collin J. Doering 2014 ;; ;; This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with this program. If not, see . ;; File: window-management.el ;; Author: Collin J. Doering ;; Date: Oct 22, 2014 ;; Use this function to create a X11 emacs frame with a static name so it can ;; be treated specially by xmonad (as a scratch-pad in this case). This is expected ;; to be run from command-line like so: ;; emacsclient --eval '(make-frame-with-static-name "emacs-scratch")' (defun make-frame-with-static-name (given-name) "Makes a (X11) frame with a unchanging name for the purposes of finding it with a window manager, and treating it specially." (select-frame (make-frame `((name . ,given-name))))) ;; Toggles windows split orientation of 2 adjecent windows ;; Thanks to http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ToggleWindowSplit (defun toggle-window-split () (interactive) (if (= (count-windows) 2) (let* ((this-win-buffer (window-buffer)) (next-win-buffer (window-buffer (next-window))) (this-win-edges (window-edges (selected-window))) (next-win-edges (window-edges (next-window))) (this-win-2nd (not (and (<= (car this-win-edges) (car next-win-edges)) (<= (cadr this-win-edges) (cadr next-win-edges))))) (splitter (if (= (car this-win-edges) (car (window-edges (next-window)))) 'split-window-horizontally 'split-window-vertically))) (delete-other-windows) (let ((first-win (selected-window))) (funcall splitter) (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1)) (set-window-buffer (selected-window) this-win-buffer) (set-window-buffer (next-window) next-win-buffer) (select-window first-win) (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1)))))) ;; TODO: Modify the below function to accept the universal argument. ;; Specifically an integer argument (n) where: ;; - if negative denotes backwards rotation repeated |n| times ;; - if positive denotes forwards rotation repeated n times ;; - otherwise, no numerical value is given for the universal argument; ignore. ;; Rotates windows ;; Thanks to http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TransposeWindows (defun rotate-windows () "Rotate your windows" (interactive) (cond ((not (> (count-windows) 1)) (message "You can't rotate a single window!")) (t (let ((i 0) (num-windows (count-windows))) (while (< i (- num-windows 1)) (let* ((w1 (elt (window-list) i)) (w2 (elt (window-list) (% (+ i 1) num-windows))) (b1 (window-buffer w1)) (b2 (window-buffer w2)) (s1 (window-start w1)) (s2 (window-start w2))) (set-window-buffer w1 b2) (set-window-buffer w2 b1) (set-window-start w1 s2) (set-window-start w2 s1) (setq i (1+ i)))))))) ;; Assign keybinding to toggle split orientation of 2 adjacent windows, and to rotate windows (define-key ctl-x-4-map "t" 'toggle-window-split) (global-set-key "\C-cr" 'rotate-windows)