;;; mldrag.el --- mode line and vertical line dragging to resize windows ;; Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Kyle E. Jones ;; Keywords: mouse ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; This package lets you drag the modeline, vertical bar and ;; scrollbar to resize windows. Suggested bindings are: ;; ;; (global-set-key [mode-line down-mouse-1] 'mldrag-drag-mode-line) ;; (global-set-key [vertical-line down-mouse-1] 'mldrag-drag-vertical-line) ;; (global-set-key [vertical-scroll-bar S-down-mouse-1] ;; 'mldrag-drag-vertical-line) ;; ;; Put the bindings and (require 'mldrag) in your .emacs file. ;;; Code: (provide 'mldrag) (defun mldrag-drag-mode-line (start-event) "Change the height of the current window with the mouse. This command should be bound to a down-mouse- event, and is most usefully bound with the `mode-line' prefix. Holding down a mouse button and moving the mouse up and down will make the clicked-on window taller or shorter." (interactive "e") (let ((done nil) (echo-keystrokes 0) (start-event-frame (window-frame (car (car (cdr start-event))))) (start-event-window (car (car (cdr start-event)))) (start-nwindows (count-windows t)) (old-selected-window (selected-window)) should-enlarge-minibuffer event mouse minibuffer y top bot edges wconfig params growth) (setq params (frame-parameters)) (if (and (not (setq minibuffer (cdr (assq 'minibuffer params)))) (one-window-p t)) (error "Attempt to resize sole window")) (unwind-protect (track-mouse (progn ;; enlarge-window only works on the selected window, so ;; we must select the window where the start event originated. ;; unwind-protect will restore the old selected window later. (select-window start-event-window) ;; if this is the bottommost ordinary window, then to ;; move its modeline the minibuffer must be enlarged. (setq should-enlarge-minibuffer (and minibuffer (not (one-window-p t)) (= (nth 1 (window-edges minibuffer)) (nth 3 (window-edges))))) ;; loop reading events and sampling the position of ;; the mouse. (while (not done) (setq event (read-event) mouse (mouse-position)) ;; do nothing if ;; - there is a switch-frame event. ;; - the mouse isn't in the frame that we started in ;; - the mouse isn't in any Emacs frame ;; drag if ;; - there is a mouse-movement event ;; - there is a scroll-bar-movement event ;; (same as mouse movement for our purposes) ;; quit if ;; - there is a keyboard event or some other unknown event ;; unknown event. (cond ((integerp event) (setq done t)) ((eq (car event) 'switch-frame) nil) ((not (memq (car event) '(mouse-movement scroll-bar-movement))) (setq done t)) ((not (eq (car mouse) start-event-frame)) nil) ((null (car (cdr mouse))) nil) (t (setq y (cdr (cdr mouse)) edges (window-edges) top (nth 1 edges) bot (nth 3 edges)) ;; scale back a move that would make the ;; window too short. (cond ((< (- y top -1) window-min-height) (setq y (+ top window-min-height -1)))) ;; compute size change needed (setq growth (- y bot -1) wconfig (current-window-configuration)) ;; grow/shrink minibuffer? (if should-enlarge-minibuffer (progn ;; yes. briefly select minibuffer so ;; enlarge-window will affect the ;; correct window. (select-window minibuffer) ;; scale back shrinkage if it would ;; make the minibuffer less than 1 ;; line tall. (if (and (> growth 0) (< (- (window-height minibuffer) growth) 1)) (setq growth (1- (window-height minibuffer)))) (enlarge-window (- growth)) (select-window start-event-window)) ;; no. grow/shrink the selected window (enlarge-window growth)) ;; if this window's growth caused another ;; window to be deleted because it was too ;; short, rescind the change. ;; ;; if size change caused space to be stolen ;; from a window above this one, rescind the ;; change, but only if we didn't grow/srhink ;; the minibuffer. minibuffer size changes ;; can cause all windows to shrink... no way ;; around it. (if (or (/= start-nwindows (count-windows t)) (and (not should-enlarge-minibuffer) (/= top (nth 1 (window-edges))))) (set-window-configuration wconfig))))))) ;; restore the old selected window (select-window old-selected-window)))) (defun mldrag-drag-vertical-line (start-event) "Change the width of the current window with the mouse. This command should be bound to a down-mouse- event, and is most usefully bound with the `vertical-line' or the `vertical-scroll-bar' prefix. Holding down a mouse button and moving the mouse left and right will make the clicked-on window thinner or wider." (interactive "e") (let ((done nil) (echo-keystrokes 0) (start-event-frame (window-frame (car (car (cdr start-event))))) (start-event-window (car (car (cdr start-event)))) (start-nwindows (count-windows t)) (old-selected-window (selected-window)) event mouse x left right edges wconfig growth) (if (one-window-p t) (error "Attempt to resize sole ordinary window")) (if (= (nth 2 (window-edges start-event-window)) (frame-width start-event-frame)) (error "Attempt to drag rightmost scrollbar")) (unwind-protect (track-mouse (progn ;; enlarge-window only works on the selected window, so ;; we must select the window where the start event originated. ;; unwind-protect will restore the old selected window later. (select-window start-event-window) ;; loop reading events and sampling the position of ;; the mouse. (while (not done) (setq event (read-event) mouse (mouse-position)) ;; do nothing if ;; - there is a switch-frame event. ;; - the mouse isn't in the frame that we started in ;; - the mouse isn't in any Emacs frame ;; drag if ;; - there is a mouse-movement event ;; - there is a scroll-bar-movement event ;; (same as mouse movement for our purposes) ;; quit if ;; - there is a keyboard event or some other unknown event ;; unknown event. (cond ((integerp event) (setq done t)) ((eq (car event) 'switch-frame) nil) ((not (memq (car event) '(mouse-movement scroll-bar-movement))) (setq done t)) ((not (eq (car mouse) start-event-frame)) nil) ((null (car (cdr mouse))) nil) (t (setq x (car (cdr mouse)) edges (window-edges) left (nth 0 edges) right (nth 2 edges)) ;; scale back a move that would make the ;; window too thin. (cond ((< (- x left -1) window-min-width) (setq x (+ left window-min-width -1)))) ;; compute size change needed (setq growth (- x right -1) wconfig (current-window-configuration)) (enlarge-window growth t) ;; if this window's growth caused another ;; window to be deleted because it was too ;; thin, rescind the change. ;; ;; if size change caused space to be stolen ;; from a window to the left of this one, ;; rescind the change. (if (or (/= start-nwindows (count-windows t)) (/= left (nth 0 (window-edges)))) (set-window-configuration wconfig))))))) ;; restore the old selected window (select-window old-selected-window)))) ;; mldrag.el ends here