/gempesaw/writing

I've decided to get a bit OCD about my window sizes in Emacs, and I got tired of hitting C-x + to do balance-windows all the time. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do this, but I just added some advice around all of the commands I usually use to change the window layout: split-window-below, split-window-right, and delete-window.

(defadvice split-window-below (after restore-balanace-below activate)
  (balance-windows))

(defadvice split-window-right (after restore-balance-right activate)
  (balance-windows))

(defadvice delete-window (after restore-balance activate)
  (balance-windows))

So now my windows automatically balance themselves whenever I C-x 2 or C-x 3, all the time! Nifty. On the off chance that I'd like to manually control the size of a window, I've found enlarge-window under C-x ^; along with a C-u and C-x z, I can enlarge a window by a bunch of lines pretty quickly.