From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Perry Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs window splitting vs reusing. Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:48:36 -0500 Message-ID: <04FA85E1-B029-43A6-B5A4-A1C7AEA1976E@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-2--609281596 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306262934 11113 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 18:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nathaniel Flath Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 20:48:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOweu-0005BI-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 20:48:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOweu-0006qV-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOwep-0006qM-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOwen-0000vP-0a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:35674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOwem-0000vL-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so3425143gxk.0 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 11:48:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=Yw1chjwb2uvB2+Gx+9ydBJZLv2FZDeIErCa2ENfPfN4=; b=ISZ5HK0KUR3MQdkNo4pExYpqjYhY+MRctcql/9GlY4ZYzLxIBVLrdAHSjRN7OXMzq/ SpdZTM0IJH03FNcrC+dcK+5vfnuAYWvJ11aiqvTY6MJLeGkUhKlPaVhK1vYvE+sIbDBO a8qR+aQmn3RHAMBwmhdR2dzhTJUuCR2y1d1Mk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=Ea3Qb0ZS2P+MnIR7Y/n6bEc40g4oVBqKO+a+lkJb/vDq8ESE3JBMvhlvCOwUfLFmFg dbYWx2uxLJj0S4dGjAgmScH4t/uF6HrI6NqqSkoGByTnbx+jEIUBdp1sfkvRNHU2Ete8 nti6KI5hphneIyRLa9O0ZJP4aQVus8qoH+lys= Original-Received: by 10.236.190.98 with SMTP id d62mr5047690yhn.74.1306262919490; Tue, 24 May 2011 11:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from dyn9041100053.austin.ibm.com ([32.97.110.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q64sm3340386yhm.61.2011.05.24.11.48.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 24 May 2011 11:48:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81019 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail-2--609281596 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On May 24, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Nathaniel Flath wrote: > How does emacs decide when to split an existing window and when to > make a new window? I prefer having four windows side-by-side, but when > I run "other-window" type commands, emacs tends to split until I have > eight windows (two rows of four) before it starts reusing windows. Take a look at split-width-threshold and split-height-threshold My preferences don't match yours so I can't suggest how to set them. --Apple-Mail-2--609281596 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
On May 24, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Nathaniel Flath wrote:

How does emacs decide when to split an existing window and when to
make a new window? I prefer having four windows side-by-side, but when
I run "other-window" type commands, emacs tends to split until I have
eight windows (two rows of four) before it starts reusing windows. 

Take a look at split-width-threshold and split-height-threshold

My preferences don't match yours so I can't suggest how to set them.

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