Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:24:58 +0100
> Cc: nicolas.despres@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>  > To clarify: I was talking only about this particular toggle, not about
>  > "other display-buffer options".  The difference is that those other
>  > options already exist, so removing or redesigning them is not easy at
>  > best, and thus probably isn't worth our while.
> 
> Which _toggle_ do you mean?

The option we were discussing, split-window-preferred-direction.

> The option we were talking about here is
> 
>    There is another aspect that still can't be customized.
>    The choice of the window to split is hard-coded
>    in 'display-buffer-pop-up-window'.  It's either
>    the largest window or lru:
> 
> and the primary client of such an option would be probably the program
> calling 'display-buffer' and not the user.

Sorry, I lost you: what does display-buffer-pop-up-window have to do
with the subject of this thread?  I'm probably missing something.