Re: New keybinding suggestion: C-x _ for `shrink-window'

[Sascha Wilde]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, I'd prefer to deprecate those bindings (along with C-x ^) and
> replace them with a binding that allows the user to do:
>
>    M-x window-resize RET
>
> (which we'd of course bind to some key) and then
>
>    ^ ^ ^ } } } } } { { { { } } ...
> or
>    left left left up up up up up up up

I like that idea very much.

> I usually don't know how by how many lines I want to expand/shrink a window,
> so I typically end up doing
>
>    C-x ^ C-x ^ C-x ^
>
> which is *really* inconvenient. 

Just for the record (and because I tend to forget about C-x z my self):

C-x ^ C-x z z [ ... ]

Will do, too.  Which is in many more convenient if you want to do a more
complex keystroke for more than two times...

cheers
sascha
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