Re: New keybinding suggestion: C-x _ for `shrink-window'

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     ;; Function by Hirose Yuuji and Bob Wiener
>     (defun resize-window (&optional arg)
>       "Resize window interactively."
>       ...
>               (cond ((= c ?h) (enlarge-window arg))
>                     ((= c ?s) (shrink-window arg))
>                     ((= c ?w) (enlarge-window-horizontally arg))
>                     ((= c ?n) (shrink-window-horizontally arg))
>                     ((= c ?\^G) (keyboard-quit))
>                     ((= c ?q) (throw 'done t))
>                     ((and (> c ?0) (<= c ?9)) (setq arg (- c ?0))))))))
>       (message "Done."))
>
> That seems basically good, but using other characters
> such as arrow keys would be an improvement.
> / and \ could be good for vertical size changes
> and [,] for horizontal; they don't need a shift key.


Why not go the whole way and let the user choose which window border to 
move? The code for it is in bw-interactive.el.