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Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition
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Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

by Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric S. Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt
December 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
536 pages
19h 28m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Depending on your requirements, you may want to work with side-by-side windows in addition to or instead of horizontal windows. For finer control, you may want to know how to size windows (and because they're not GUI windows, you can't do that with the mouse).[2] You may also want to know how to compare files between windows, a good feature for basic file comparison.

Creating Vertical or Side-by-Side Windows

To split the window vertically into two side-by-side windows, type C-x 3. You can execute this step repeatedly to create more side-by-side windows.

Type: C-x 3

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Emacs creates two vertical windows.

When you create multiple vertical windows, Emacs usually doesn't have enough room to display a full line of text. Because vertical windows don't usually show full lines of text, a right arrow (on graphical implementations) or a dollar sign (on terminal-based implementations) at the end of a line tells you the line is continued.

To see the rest of the line, you need to know how to scroll text to the left and right. To push the text currently being displayed to the left (so you can see what's on the right), type C-x <. Left arrows or dollar signs are displayed on the left side of the window to indicate that there is more text to the left. To push the text being displayed to the right (so you can see what's on the left), type C-x >. You can use these commands whenever ...

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