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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> Juri Linkov
	<juri@linkov.net>
Cc: nicolas.despres@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:33:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5cytbj2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6663acd6-d378-4b3d-9bf2-ce0a24c0766f@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:16:14 +0100)

> 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, I added Stefan and Juri to the discussion.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-14 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-14 10:05 Prefer to split along the longest edge Nicolas Desprès
2024-12-14 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-14 11:45   ` Nicolas Desprès
2024-12-14 12:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-14 14:06       ` Nicolas Desprès
2024-12-14 14:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-14 15:41           ` Nicolas Desprès
2024-12-14 17:16   ` martin rudalics
2024-12-14 17:33     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-14 17:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-14 18:35 ` Juri Linkov
2024-12-14 20:10   ` Nicolas Desprès

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