Re: split screen horizontally into three equally spaced sections

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:26:06 -0700 (PDT) maps.automation58@gmail.com wrote:

> On Sep 16, 1:22 am, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> At Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Gil <gilbert.har...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a way to split the screen horizontally (C-x 3) in such a way
>> > that the three windows are equally spaced?
>>
>> Yes,  You want balance-windows (see below).
>>
>> C-x 1   C-x 3   C-x 3   C-x +
>>
>> Will give you three equal size windows in the frame.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> C-x + runs the command balance-windows
>>   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `window.el'.
>> It is bound to C-x +.
>> (balance-windows &optional WINDOW-OR-FRAME)
> my balance-windows only balances them vertically... is there another
> command I can use or an easy way I can change that?

It works for me under both version 22 and version 23.  What emacs
version are you running.  Also do you start with a wide frame?

allan