From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: pop-to-buffer / switch-to-buffer-other-window
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 09:18:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91CED84B-6628-4458-92E0-9A6AD7BCC9DF@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A063A0F-C208-4689-9E28-AB7DD56583D9@traduction-libre.org>
On June 7, 2020 5:55:52 AM GMT+03:00, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> When I have just one window open, switch-to-buffer-other-window
> sometimes splits vertically and sometimes horizontally to display the
> other window.
>
> In the documentation, there are plenty of references to "some window"
> but little if anything about how that window is chosen/created.
>
> What is the rationale behind this lack of consistency ? Or is there
> some consistency, for ex based on the mode ?
Please see "Splitting Windows" in the ELisp manual, it describes how Emacs decides whether to split vertically or horizontally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-07 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-07 2:55 pop-to-buffer / switch-to-buffer-other-window Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-06-07 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-06-07 6:55 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-06-07 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-07 11:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-06-07 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-07 15:07 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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