Shrinking Windows Horizontally

[Eric James Michael Ritz]

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Hello my fellow Emacs users. Is there a command similar to
shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer which will shrink horizontally
instead of vertically? I often find myself bringing up a window that
I want to shrink horizontally as much as possible—usually a side-bar
with some information about some code I am working on. Does anything
like this already exist in Emacs? Or if not, any tips to point me in
a good direction for writing the command myself?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Eric James Michael Ritz
Cyber Sprocket Labs

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[Drew Adams]

> Is there a command similar to shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
> which will shrink horizontally instead of vertically?
> I often find myself bringing up a window that

> I want to shrink horizontally as much as possible-usually a side-bar

> with some information about some code I am working on. Does anything
> like this already exist in Emacs? Or if not, any tips to point me in
> a good direction for writing the command myself?

I don't know of anything analogous to `shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer'.

However, you can use `C-x {' (`shrink-window-horizontally').

To repeat it (to use it incrementally), either bind the command to a repeatable
key or use `C-x { C-x z z z z z'...

You might also be interested in `face-remap+.el'. It recuperates wasted
horizontal whitespace that results from shrinking text, by shrinking the window.
(It can also do the same thing for wasted vertical space.)
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#ZoomBuffer

[Bastien]

Eric James Michael Ritz <Er...@cybersprocket.com> writes:

> Hello my fellow Emacs users. Is there a command similar to

> shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer which will shrink horizontally
> instead of vertically?

You might find this library useful:

http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/windresize.el

It allows you to resize windows interactively.

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Bastien

[Lennart Borgman]

There is a couple of alternatives here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowResize#toc3