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windrg00
windrg00

Reputation: 457

emacs change the file in a specific window

I'd like to implement a function to show a file I want in a specific window and I also would like to change the file to an another one in that window in case I want to. But I couldn't find any appropriate API. Could you give me some advices to write this sort of functions, please? I can get an window id from (split-window-xxx) but I can't imagine what elisp API can have it displayed the file I want to. Please give me some advice.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 66

Answers (2)

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 28531

The lower-level control you might be looking for are find-file-noselect which opens a file and returns the buffer without displaying it, and set-window-buffer which lets you change the buffer displayed by a particular window.

Upvotes: 1

Alex Smart
Alex Smart

Reputation: 83

You can try

(with-selected-window window
  (find-file f))

or if you want to load a buffer

(with-selected-window window
  (switch-to-buffer buf))

Upvotes: 2

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