From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch: prefer-window-split-horizontally Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:47:15 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vebij5p8.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87bqdajcr1.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187124769 29202 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2007 20:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 22:52:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IL3Ne-00038L-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:52:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL3Nd-0000ji-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL3Nb-0000jd-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL3Na-0000jR-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL3Na-0000jO-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IL3NT-0006jb-Rq; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IL3NB-0000MY-2q; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:52:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87bqdajcr1.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue\, 14 Aug 2007 18\:34\:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 0a21689c2f1d2e94d8aa83f1a1b60733 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1388 [August 14 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76519 Archived-At: > I reworked Fredrik Axelsson's patch [1] since I couldn't contact him for > more than a month. I think now would be a good time to include it. > > It adds this new variable: > ,----[ C-h v prefer-window-split-horizontally RET ] > | prefer-window-split-horizontally is a variable defined in `C source code'. > | Its value is t > | > | Documentation: > | *Non-nil means that windows are split horizontally, i.e. side-by-side, instead > | of vertically by `display-buffer'. > | An integer value means that windows may only be split horizontally if the newly > | created window is at least as wide as that value. What do you think about adding another variable `split-window-function' with the default value `split-window-vertically' or nil with the same meaning, and the possible other value `split-window-horizontally'? This would be like setting `ediff-split-window-function' to `split-window-horizontally'. Since this value will hold a function we can set it to any function that implements different heuristics to decide how to split the window: whether to take into account the window size or the window name, etc. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/