From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:43:25 +0530 Message-ID: <8162jc7xy2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> <8139egbc9l.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319631244 19716 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2011 12:14:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 14:13:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1RJ2Mf-0000fH-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ2Mf-0002oL-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ2Mc-0002oG-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ2Mb-0005Ln-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:37503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ2Mb-0005Li-OQ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so1915898qyk.0 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:13:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=E4jPBkmYgusNrg99lvH+JBWI9J0FLjcr7nm1vl6O8Fo=; b=RoCe1qdLrd9ZrQTbqnXgWq6fNvyHHKHS5LaZ5MltTAiR3yzIXtQ/sJE4caZj+ABjB8 iGDvPYrZXrroX6eXuBNlGRCzbLUEEy6Oyit1RoyxS99YEv3hwBSIadniApu0n/K68o23 FHAcpUaZXoBVNttLi4fi/DqfHOjM0Le313go8= Original-Received: by 10.68.38.41 with SMTP id d9mr45707591pbk.103.1319631225092; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.242.215.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id le18sm5335292pbb.3.2011.10.26.05.13.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <8139egbc9l.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:05:50 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.176 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145565 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: >> Martin recently introduced the command names >> >> split-window-above-each-other -> C-x 2 >> split-window-side-by-side -> C-x 3 >> >> for which split-window-{vertically|horizontally} are now aliases. > > How about: > > split-window-and-stack-horizontally > split-window-and-stack-vertically > > or > > split-window-and-arrange-horizontally > split-window-and-arrange-vertically I like Tim's suggestion. Another variation of my earlier suggestion would be split-window-and-tile-horizontally split-window-and-tile-vertically Since windows are always tiled but never stacked or arranged, so to speak. --