Re: How start shell in a new *window*? No shell-other-window exists!?!?!

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On Dec 9, 4:45 am, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There doesn't seem to be a shell-other-window to start shell in a new
> > *window* like dired-other-window.
>
> > The following function I wrote shows a shell in TWO windows so it
> > doesn't do the trick.
>
> > (lambda () (interactive)
> >         (switch-to-buffer-other-window (shell)))
>
> Try this
>
> (lambda () (interactive)
>    (switch-to-buffer-other-window nil)
>    (shell))
>
> The point is that in your code, (shell) is evaluated (making a new
> buffer, which gets displayed in the current window) and then
> switch-to-buffer-other-window says to display that buffer in a different
> window too.

Thanks a lot.  That did it!

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