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. If only one window is open, it is split first.

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.

rotate-skip-dedicated-windows

Default value is t.

When non-nil, rotate commands ignore dedicated windows. This lets the package coexist cleanly with sidebar-style packages such as treemacs, neotree, or dired-sidebar, whose windows are typically dedicated.

Set to nil to include dedicated windows in the rotation:

(setq rotate-skip-dedicated-windows nil)

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.