How do I rearrange a split pane in Emacs?

Question

In Vim I can move a split around. For example, if my window was split in two horizontally, with the topmost split split vertically (3 splits in total) I could move the top-right split to the right to become a vertical split taking up the entire vertical space.

Is this kind of rearrangement possible?

Update: I know resizing is possible, I'm looking to move though. I get the feeling this is not supported by Emacs.

Answer 1

I believe that the window resize commands are built in to window.el, from emacswiki the functions you want documented are:

shrink-window-horizontally  ; C-x {
enlarge-window-horizontally ; C-x }
enlarge-window              ; C-x ^
shrink-window               ; not bound on my system

The comments are what they are bound to on my system, but I don't know if I did that myself.

All of them take a prefix argument, the number of lines to enlarge/shrink. The last two default to vertical.

Answer 2

You may be interested by C-x + when you have more than 2 windows. It rearranges equally the windows on the frame. It's convenient for example when you do two C-x 2 in a row and want to have the windows to occupy the same space on the frame.