Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:56:26 -0700: > Hello > I have this in my ~/.emacs
> (defun edo-vertical-to-horizontal () > (interactive) > (let ((one-buf (window-buffer (selected-window)))) > (other-window 1) > (delete-other-window) > (split-window-horizontally) > (switch-to-buffer one-buf)) I don't think that's _quite_ what you've got in your .emacs: I think in your real .emacs you've got (delete-other-windows) ^ | , and there's an extra parenthesis at the end, to balance the one opening the defun. You seem to be using Mozilla on Windows NT. Have you been having trouble copying and pasting text from Emacs into Mozilla? > upone M-x edo-vertical-to-horizontal > it actually do horizontal to vertical which is the opposite to what it > is suppost to do. it was working good last time I used it which was a > year or so ago, I since upgraded my debain. What the function does for me is to change this layout: ******************************* * * * * ******************************* * * * * ******************************* to this one: ******************************* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ******************************* > not sure why it would do this. `split-window-horizonally' means "split so that to go between the resulting windows means moving horizontally", NOT "split so that the resulting windows are separated by a horizontal line". This seems arbitrary, but the choice had to be made one way or the other. Personally, I agree with you, and I think the choice was made the wrong way - looking at the second of my diagrams, I imagine a sword swiping VERTICALLY through a sheet of paper. > thanks THANK YOU for this function! I've been doing this with the clumsy double sequence C-x 1, C-x 3 for years, and never quite consciously realised what a hassle this was. So, I've now put this into my .emacs with this key-binding: (global-set-key "\C-cv 'edo-vertical-to-horizontal). I've also made the obvious other function, and bound (global-set-key "\C-ch 'edo-horizontal-to-vertical). -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs