How to make windows equal horizontally or vertically by shortcuts?

Question

I am looking for the way to make Vim windows equal only vertically or horizontally, not both at the same time. For example, I want ^W= to affect only window width and ^W=| to affect only its height. Is this possible?

UPDATE

Thanks to @rburny who suggest the appropriate commands. So the final result is:

nmap <c-w>== :set ead=ver ea noea<CR> " set windows equal vertically (^W, =, =)
nmap <c-w>=- :set ead=hor ea noea<CR> " set windows equal horizontally (^W, =, -)

If you want to set windows equally both, just press ^W= and wait for a moment.

Answer 1

I'm assuming you don't use equalalways option, since you want to do such operations manually. In this case, you can hack equalalways to do what you want:

" make all windows the same height
:set ead=ver ea noea
" make all windows the same width
:set ead=hor ea noea

What these commands do is basically:

• set preferred direction for equalalways (vertical / horizontal)
• enable & disable equalalways, which causes the windows in a current tab to be made equal in chosen direction

Obviously, you can map these commands to any key sequence.