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Ok, so maybe this is more a question for the superuser site but I figured there'd be a hell of a lot more emacs users on stackoverflow.
Basically I often have my emacs split into about 4 windows so I can look at a bunch of buffers at the same time.. however I'd like to be able to C-x 1 (make the window the same size as emacs) and then somehow restore back to my nice 4 window layout I was just looking at.
Is there an easy way to do this or do I need some elisp / lisp (note: I don't know ANY elisp.)
Thanks! John.
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Now you can force Emacs to start in maximized mode with the command line switch --maximized or -mm . In Windows you have to use a bit of elisp and Win32 magic to get it to work. The code will only execute on Windows, and it works by sending a WM_SYSCOMMAND window message to itself, telling it to maximize.
Basic settings Now run Emacs and press F11 to switch into full-screen mode. Press F11 again to switch to windowed mode.
You can split a window horizontally or vertically by clicking C-Mouse-2 in the mode line or the scroll bar.
And a buffer can be closed by :q . Likewise in emacs, window can be split horizontally by C-x 2 , and vertically by C-x 3 . And close all other window by C-x 1 .
Try winner-mode.
With winner-mode enabled, you can restore your previous window configuration with C-c<left>.
You can type it repeatedly to step back through the window configuration history, so you're safe even when there have been multiple intervening changes.
C-c<right> returns you (directly) to the most recent configuration.
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