Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:16:14 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>  > I add martin to this discussion, since I expect him to have a lot of
>  > insight on these matters.
> 
> 'split-window-sensibly' (initially called 'window--try-to-split-window')
> was written by Stefan Monnier and was supposed to subsume the
> functionality of 'split-window-preferred-horizontally' (written by Juri
> Linkov).  Both know more about this issue than I do.
> 
> I only recall that initially many people hated the idea that it would
> make a window on the right and subsequently set 'split-width-threshold'
> to nil (Bug#431, Bug33929).  I'm afraid that changing the default
> behavior again may lead to similar reactions even if people who set
> ‘split-width-threshold’ to nil should not be affected.
> 
> So whatever you do here please read the reports on Bug#1806, Bug#3142,
> Bug#20189 (unless you have done so already) first and also do a search
> for 'split-width-threshold' on emacs-devel.

Thanks, adding Stefan and Juri to the discussion.