tatami layout

Description

This patch adds a new layout, tatami, that arranges all windows like tatami tiles. This patch forms 'mats' of 5 or less windows each, and each mat has 5 different possible arrangements. The mats then form a stack as shown in the 7+ windows diagram below.

+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+
|           |           |  |           |           |
|           |           |  |           |     2     |
|           |           |  |           |           |
|     1     |     2     |  |     1     +-----------+
|           |           |  |           |           |
|           |           |  |           |     3     |
|           |           |  |           |           |
+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+
	2 windows                  3 windows
+-----------+-----+-----+  +-----------+-----------+
|           |     |     |  |           |     2     |
|           |  2  |  3  |  |           +-----+-----+
|           |     |     |  |           |     |     |
|     1     +-----+-----+  |     1     |  3  |  4  |
|           |           |  |           |     |     |
|           |     4     |  |           +-----+-----+
|           |           |  |           |     5     |
+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----+-----+
	4 windows                  5 windows
+-----------+---+-------+  +-----------+-----------+
     |           |   |   3   |  |           |    new    |
     |           | 2 +---+---+  |           +---+-------+
     |           |   |   |   |  |           |   |   4   |
     |     1     |   | 4 |   |  |     1     | 3 +---+---+
     |           |   |   | 5 |  |           |   | 5 |   |
     |           +---+---+   |  |           +---+---+ 6 |
     |           |   6   |   |  |           |   7   |   |
     +-----------+-------+---+  +-----------+-------+---+
	6 windows                  7+ windows

Usage

  1. Download the patch and apply according to the general instructions.

  2. Include the tatami.c source file and add tatami to the Layout section of your config.h file. Example from config.default.h:

    #include "tatami.c"
static Layout layout[] = {
	/* symbol               function */
	{ "[]=",                tile }, /* first entry is default */
	{ "><>",                floating },
	{ "|+|",                tatami },
};

  3. The default keybinding is [Alt]+[y] for tatami.

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