Re: how about a find-library-other-window command?

[Sean O'Rourke]

David House <address@hidden> writes:

> Drew Adams writes:
>  > How about a `find-library-other-window' command?
>
> I've wondered in the past whether it would be feasible to have
> C-x 4 be bound to a command which reads a key sequence then
> executes it in another window, so that we needn't define new
> commands for every command we want to execute in the other
> window.

This, or something similar, seems useful.  I currently use a
slightly different hack that makes "C-z FOO" do whatever "C-x
FOO" does, but in another window.  I do it by copying `ctl-x-map'
and wrapping the entries with this:

    (defun other-windowize (fn)
      `(lambda ()
         (interactive)
         (switch-to-buffer-other-window
          (save-window-excursion (call-interactively ',fn) (current-buffer)))))

No doubt there's a better way, but this seems to work well enough
to replace many existing FOO-other-window commands, and to
other-windowize some new things.

/s