Re: [RP] forced shrink

[Ted Walther]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:24:20AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> I'm curious if it is possible to :shrink a window regardless of
> transient/nontransient/however it works now.  As it stands, I rarely
> feel the need to :shrink a window, unless I have something fullscreened
> that I'd rather not have.  At that point, shrink fails.  I'd like to,
> basically, resize all sides by -X, so I can manually shrink a given
> window.
>
> If anyone knows if this is possible, let me know.  I'd be willing to
> code something up, but I'd like to see if it can be done with existing
> features before I do that.

I wonder if the split and hsplit commands support percentages.  Be nice
to put a tail -f /var/log/apache in a small 20% xterm at the bottom, a
gaim buddy list 25% at the left side, and the rest devoted to web
browser.

Ted

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