emacs-rotate.el

What's it

This package will help the operation for the multiple windows.

Behavior has been prepared with reference to tmux.

Basic Usage

rotate-window

Rotate the positions of the window.

rotate-window

rotate-layout

Move a window to the next layout and rearrange the window to fit.

rotate-layout 2 windows

rotate-layout 4 windows

Customize Variables

rotate-functions

Default value is

'(rotate:even-horizontal
  rotate:even-vertical
  rotate:main-horizontal
  rotate:main-vertical
  rotate:tiled)

A number of preset layouts are available. These may be selected with the rotate-layout command or cycled with next-layout; once a layout is chosen, window within it may be moved and resized as normal.

By replacing this value, you can circulate freely.

Preset layouts

The following layouts are supported:

rotate:even-horizontal

Spread out evenly from left to right across the window.

rotate:even-vertical

Spread evenly from top to bottom.

rotate:main-horizontal

A large (main) window is shown at the top of the window and the remaining windows are spread from left to right in the leftover space at the bottom.

rotate:main-vertical

Similar to main-horizontal but the large window is placed on the left and the others spread from top to bottom along the right.

rotate:tiled

Spread out as evenly as possible over the window in both rows and columns.