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Dynamic Tiling Windows in Emacs with Edwina

https://github.com/ajgrf/edwina

What is it?

• Edwina is a dynamic tiling window manager for Emacs
• Provides master/stack window layout like dwm or Xmonad
• Experimental!

Thanks to X VNA for suggesting this package!

Setting it up

(use-package edwina
  :ensure t
  :config
  (setq display-buffer-base-action '(display-buffer-below-selected))
  ;; (edwina-setup-dwm-keys)
  (edwina-mode 1))

Keybindings

By default these keys are prefixed with C-c C-w. Customize edwina-keymap-prefix to change the prefix.

Binding	Action
r, C-r	Arrange windows
n, C-n, SPC	Move to next window
p, C-p	Move to previous window
N, C-S-n	Swap places with the next window
P, C-S-p	Swap places with the previous window
%, {, [	Decrease the size of the master area
^, }, ]	Increase the size of the master area
d, C-d	Decrease number of windows in master
i	Increase number of windows in master
k, C-k	Delete window
RET	Cycle window to/from master area
c, C-c	Clone current window

TIP: Set up dwm-inspired keys with (edwina-setup-dwm-keys)