From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward Welbourne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: no customisation of default window-splitting orientation (enhancement) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:13:13 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: eddy@opera.no NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035288862 4815 80.91.224.249 (22 Oct 2002 12:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183xvR-0001FH-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:14:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183xvK-0000yd-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183xuP-0000q6-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183xuN-0000pe-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from pat.opera.com ([193.69.113.22] helo=whorl.intern.opera.no) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183xuN-0000k4-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eddy by whorl.intern.opera.no with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183xuL-0001ri-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:13:13 +0200 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3744 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3744 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! 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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian configured using `configure i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Many commands in emacs split the window if there's only one active when they're invoked; they don't generally have any cause to care whether horizontally or vertically, but they all split vertically (i.e. with a horizontal divider halving the window height). This made perfect sense for as long as I was working on a screen with of order 80 columns; but now I'm using a window with 183 columns (one pane of my fvwm is taken up by an emacs window with minimal decor) so my preferred splitting orientation is horizontally (halve width with a vertical divider); I `only' get 67 lines on screen at a time. Some buffers (notably those (sometimes) created by commands that split the window) close their window when they are closed - e.g. sending a mail closes the window in which it was composed. This made perfect sense when I was on a screen where a split window was painful and only tolerated because I needed to see one buffer while editing another. However, now it means that I have to C-x 3 after closing such a buffer, before doing anything that'd want to split the window if it found only one window active; otherwise, I end up with a vertical split rather than my preferred horizontal split. It would be nice to have some way of telling all those functions, which ensure they have a second window, (or, more likely, telling the command to which they all delegate) that I prefer to split horizontally rather than vertically. Recent input: a t i o n o SPC c o n f i g SPC f o r C-g C-h i C-s s p l i t M-b C-s C-s C-s C-s C-x C-x m M-> u C-s s p l i t C-r C-r C-s C-s C-e m C-x 0 C-x o C-h v t r u p a M-x s e t - v a M-p n i l C-x o M-x M-p M-p Recent messages: byte-code: Quit Mark saved where search started [2 times] unzipping emacs-24.gz...done Mark set unzipping emacs-1.gz...done Mark saved where search started unzipping emacs-11.gz...done scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll: Beginning of buffer scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll: End of buffer Type C-x 4 b RET to restore the other window. C-M-v to scroll the help.