From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3142: 23.0.92; split-window-prefered-function should be able to usesplit-window-horizontally/split-window-vertically Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:49:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <49F6A25B.3050108@gmx.at> <874ow84cp6.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <49F7FE0F.1020107@gmx.at> <011501c9c8d1$86d11820$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <49F969D5.9090409@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317840611 29401 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 18:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:50:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 3142@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 20:50:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXc-0000NE-Ks for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:50:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXc-00053e-6q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXY-0004uX-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXX-0007P9-2a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXX-0007Oz-0i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXa-0004Vd-2u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 3142 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3142-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B3142.131784058817309 (code B ref 3142); Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3142) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Oct 2011 18:49:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXL-0004V7-0r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXH-0004Uz-R9 for 3142@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBWXD-0005R7-6M; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:49:39 -0400 X-Spook: BATF oil MD5 Abu Ghraib Rand Corporation radar advisors X-Ran: @^&i@z9HAFUQ}u_PIq-U`E,Yy+5LS,o4jhaDn=WHv"1?qv'z2h#7vlL!hOQ\9%_2de)YQO X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <49F969D5.9090409@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:05:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:50:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52226 Archived-At: As with many bug reports about window handling, this became rather long. What actually needs to be done to close this? AFAICS, the actual bug report was "I would like a way to tell split-window-preferred-function to always split vertically, or always horizontally". Surely there is such a way, and it is documented in that variable's documentation: You can customize the options `split-height-threshold' and/or `split-width-threshold' in order to have `split-window-sensibly' prefer either vertical or horizontal splitting.