Re: delete window help

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On Nov 4, 4:41 pm, bbrady <bryan.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > give it a argument of 2. Type this:
>
> > Ctrl+u 2 Ctrl+x 0
>
> > in general, if you want to give a argument to a command, just type Ctrl
> > +u first then argument, then call the command.
>
> Thanks for the info, I didn't know how to give arguments to a
> command.
>
> I've tried what you mentioned above and its not working. I also tried
> giving delete-window arguments 0 and 1. The behavior is the same. That
> is, window 'c' becomes the entire left side. Which is the same thing
> that happens when I run Ctrl+x 0 without arguments. (Note, I was in
> window 'a' when I did Ctrl+u 2 Ctrl+x 0)
>
> To make sure we're on the same page, executing the elisp code below
> should bring you to the same state I'm in when I want to delete window
> 'c'.
>
> (split-window-horizontally)
> (split-window)
> (find-file "a")
> (other-window 1)
> (find-file "c")
> (other-window 1)
> (find-file "b")
> (other-window 1)
>
> I tried eval-expression on (delete-window 2) and I got the following
> error trace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument windowp 2)
>   delete-window(2)
>   eval((delete-window 2))
>   eval-expression((delete-window 2) nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-expression)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
>
> It looks like delete-window wants a pointer to a window object,
> instead of an integer.
>
> bbrady

Yes,.
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C-x 0 runs the command delete-window
  which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
It is bound to C-x 0.
(delete-window &optional window)
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Of course, you can use macro.




Remove window from the display.  Default is selected windo