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Emacs dirtree resize partition

I have dirtree working with emacs, its very good. The only issue I have with it is that I want to be able to resize the partition between the directory structure on the left and the file I am editing on the right.

I have done some googling around the issue but have not managed to find anything. I am new to emacs so the explanation may need to be in somewhat layman's terms.

Solution

  • GUI mode

    Hover your mouse over the status line between the two windows, you can drag to resize.

    Terminal or GUI mode

    With the point in the dirtree buffer press C-{ to shrink the window or C-} to expand it. These commands work one column at a time, if you want to repeat it use C-x z. i.e.

    C-{ C-x z z

    to shrink by 3 columns.

    To change the stepping, use a prefix argument

    C-2 C-} C-x z z

    will expand by 2 columns 3 times.