This tip is just a distribution of a piece of code from Steve Yegge’s Emacs conf. It swaps the position of two windows. Very handy!
(defun swap-windows ()
"If you have 2 windows, it swaps them."
(interactive)
(cond ((/= (count-windows) 2)
(message "You need exactly 2 windows to do this."))
(t
(let* ((w1 (first (window-list)))
(w2 (second (window-list)))
(b1 (window-buffer w1))
(b2 (window-buffer w2))
(s1 (window-start w1))
(s2 (window-start w2)))
(set-window-buffer w1 b2)
(set-window-buffer w2 b1)
(set-window-start w1 s2)
(set-window-start w2 s1))))
(other-window 1))
I bound C-c s to the function:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'swap-windows)