Each Emacs window displays one Emacs buffer at any time. A single
buffer may appear in more than one window; if it does, any changes in
-its text are displayed in all the windows where it appears. But the
-windows showing the same buffer can show different parts of it, because
-each window has its own value of point.
+its text are displayed in all the windows where it appears. But these
+windows can show different parts of the buffer, because each window
+has its own value of point.
@cindex selected window
- At any time, one of the windows is the @dfn{selected window}; the
+ At any time, one Emacs window is the @dfn{selected window}; the
buffer this window is displaying is the current buffer. The terminal's
cursor shows the location of point in this window. Each other window
has a location of point as well. On text-only terminals, there is no
way to show where those locations are, since the terminal has only one
-cursor. If you are using a window system, the location of point in a
-non-selected window is indicated by a hollow box. The cursor in the
+cursor. On a graphical display, the location of point in a
+non-selected window is indicated by a hollow box; the cursor in the
selected window is blinking or solid.
Commands to move point affect the value of point for the selected Emacs
-window only. They do not change the value of point in any other Emacs
-window, even one showing the same buffer. The same is true for commands
-such as @kbd{C-x b} to change the current buffer in the selected window;
+window only. They do not change the value of point in other Emacs
+windows, even those showing the same buffer. The same is true for commands
+such as @kbd{C-x b} to switch buffers in the selected window;
they do not affect other windows at all. However, there are other commands
such as @kbd{C-x 4 b} that select a different window and switch buffers in
it. Also, all commands that display information in a window, including
avoid scrolling the text currently visible on the screen, by putting
point in each window at a position already visible in the window. It
also selects whichever window contains the screen line that the cursor
-was previously on. Some users prefer the latter mode on slow
-terminals.
+was previously on. Some users prefer that mode on slow terminals.
@node Other Window
@section Using Other Windows
(@code{shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer}).
@item C-x +
Make all windows the same height (@code{balance-windows}).
-@item Drag-Mouse-1
-Dragging a window's mode line up or down with @kbd{Mouse-1} changes
-window heights.
-@item Mouse-2
-@kbd{Mouse-2} in a window's mode line deletes all other windows in the frame
-(@code{mouse-delete-other-windows}).
-@item Mouse-3
-@kbd{Mouse-3} in a window's mode line deletes that window
-(@code{mouse-delete-window}), unless the frame has only one window, in
-which case it buries the current buffer instead and switches to another
-buffer.
@end table
@kindex C-x 0
the minibuffer); the selected window expands to use the whole frame
except for the echo area.
- You can also delete a window by clicking on its mode line with
-@kbd{Mouse-3}, and delete all the windows in a frame except one window
-by clicking on that window's mode line with @kbd{Mouse-2}.
-
- You can also adjust window heights and widths with the mouse. If
-you press @kbd{Mouse-1} on a mode line, you can drag that mode line up
-or down, changing the heights of the windows above and below it. If
-you press it on the divider between two consecutive mode lines, you
-can drag that divider right or left, changing the widths of the
-windows to either side. Note that changing heights and widths with
-the mouse never deletes windows, it just refuses to make any window
-smaller than it can be.
-
@kindex C-x ^
@findex enlarge-window
@kindex C-x @}
@vindex window-min-width
To readjust the division of space among vertically adjacent windows,
use @kbd{C-x ^} (@code{enlarge-window}). It makes the currently
-selected window get one line bigger, or as many lines as is specified
+selected window one line bigger, or as many lines as is specified
with a numeric argument. With a negative argument, it makes the
selected window smaller. @kbd{C-x @}}
(@code{enlarge-window-horizontally}) makes the selected window wider by
(@code{shrink-window-horizontally}) makes the selected window narrower
by the specified number of columns.
- When you make a window bigger, the space comes from one of its
-neighbors. If this makes any window too small, it is deleted and its
-space is given to an adjacent window. The minimum size is specified by
-the variables @code{window-min-height} and @code{window-min-width}.
+ When you make a window bigger, the space comes from its peers. If
+this makes any window too small, it is deleted and its space is given
+to an adjacent window. The minimum size is specified by the variables
+@code{window-min-height} and @code{window-min-width}.
@kindex C-x -
@findex shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
You can also use @kbd{C-x +} (@code{balance-windows}) to even out the
heights of all the windows in the selected frame.
+ Mouse clicks on the mode line provide another way to change window
+heights and to delete windows. @xref{Mode Line Mouse}.
+
@node Window Convenience
@section Window Handling Convenience Features and Customization
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