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Re: Q: How can I swap buffers in two windows?
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Sebastian Luque |
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Re: Q: How can I swap buffers in two windows? |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:05:43 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Eric Pement" <pemente@northpark.edu> wrote:
> This request has appeared several times on this newsgroup, worded in
> different ways, but has never been answered. I have already checked the
> FAQ, M-x apropos, and the Emacs info pages. Can someone please give
> help or direction here?
> I have an Emacs frame split into two windows, which may be split
> vertically or horizontally. I would like a single command to swap or
> exchange both windows, i.e., put buffer A into window B, and put buffer
> B into window A. If there are not exactly two windows in the frame,
> issue an error message.
> I know that I can do "C-x b", {B}, <RET>, "C-x o", "C-x b", {A}, <RET>,
> but I want to execute it with a single command without typing out the
> buffer names at all. Emacs already knows the names of the buffers in
> each window, so why should I have to type them?
Perhaps not exactly what you want, but this might help:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/buffer-move.el
Cheers,
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Sebastian P. Luque