For the longest time, I had my compilation buffers split to the right in a rather large window. Until I started programming in Emacs. Previously, I looked at LaTeX build outputs, or the static site generator’s progress. That was it. Lots of logged text, so I wanted the space. But compiling C++ or Swift code compulsively, as I do, this got on my nerves really quick. So here’s a more normal configuration, showing compilation-mode buffers in a 25% bottom split “side window” (essentially a sidebar, but anywhere).
I admit: I’ve been relying heavily on ChatGPT to get to grips with some PHP things. Asking for interpretation, alternatives, and PHP 8-specific stuff was a lot of help. I’ve been using this in a separate floating window (aka ‘frame’) in Emacs next to my editing context, and that was great. Until I accidentally closed the buffer and lost the history.
In the previous post I showed some settings to manage a tab dedicated to Org Agenda and its related org files. I also mentioned that I didn’t like how that tab was actually handled, e.g. when I wanted to break out into other tabs.
Emacs’s automatic window management is a bit arcane, but Mickey Petersen’s excellent article “Demystifying Emacs’s Window Manager” is full of inspiring snippets. A couple of months ago, I made some tweaks. One is to dedicate a tab to “Org Agenda”. (That’s a tab-bar-mode tab, not a tab-line-mode tab.)
