Better window management with ElScreen
Today I stumbled upon a sweet little mode for GNU Emacs called ElScreen. The nice thing about it is that you can have multiple window setups in one frame. I use it to keep my gnus windows (usually two, the summary buffer and the message window) and my coding window separate from each other then I can easily switch between them by hitting C-z n (Switch to the “next” screen in a cyclic order) and C-z p (Switch to the “previous” screen in a cyclic order).
There are also a number of very useful shortcuts for working with setups (tabs - as ElScreen displays them):
- C-z C-c Create a new screen and switch to it.
- C-z C-k Kill current screen.
- C-z C-n Switch to the “next” screen in a cyclic order.
- C-z C-p Switch to the “previous” screen in a cyclic order.
- C-z C-a Toggle to the screen selected previously.
- C-z 0 Jump to the screen number 0-9.
- C-z C-w Show a list of screen.
You can get ElScreen from this ftp address: here.
Installation is very simple, just copy the file elscreen.el into a directory in your path and add this line to your .emacs file (load “elscreen” “ElScreen” t).
from a terminal do:
wget -c ftp://ftp.morishima.net/pub/morishima.net/naoto/ElScreen/elscreen-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf elscreen-1.4.6.tar.gz
cp elscreen-1.4.6/elscreen.el ~/.elisp/
in .emacs add:
(load "elscreen" "ElScreen" t)
I hope you find this useful and drop me a line if something is not working right.