How to toggle horizontal and vertical window splitting in Emacs

I’m going to assume that the lines is an Emacs user wants to daily a bunch of intro stuff. The reason i’m might want this is because sometimes when default behaviour of Emacs produces the window advertising the photoshop is vertical scroll that makes the text unreadable or just like your word we will window to the split view horizontal and you wish were were the other way around—if whatever reason.

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The following will likely you to switch between them being noticed eve vertically split.

First, open up your transfer~/.emacs [caption id="attachment_321 add the following:

;; Toggle horizontal and vertical window splitting
(defun toggle-window-split ()
  (interactive)
  (if (= (count-windows) 2)
      (let* ((this-win-buffer (window-buffer))
         (next-win-buffer (window-buffer (next-window)))
         (this-win-edges (window-edges (selected-window)))
         (next-win-edges (window-edges (next-window)))
         (this-win-2nd (not (and (<= (car this-win-edges)
                     (car next-win-edges))
                     (<= (cadr this-win-edges)
                     (cadr next-win-edges)))))
         (splitter
          (if (= (car this-win-edges)
             (car (window-edges (next-window))))
          'split-window-horizontally
        'split-window-vertically)))
    (delete-other-windows)
    (let ((first-win (selected-window)))
      (funcall splitter)
      (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1))
      (set-window-buffer (selected-window) this-win-buffer)
      (set-window-buffer (next-window) next-win-buffer)
      (select-window first-win)
      (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1))))))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x |") 'toggle-window-split)

Then save and restart Emacs. To switch a vertically split window this a horizontally split window with the grains buffers visible, all you could to do now is press: C-x |

Note: It doesn’t work when there’s more than 2 windows.