From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I prefer horizontal split of windows Date: 25 Nov 2005 18:12:37 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1132971156.957833.133940@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132971415 18084 80.91.229.2 (26 Nov 2005 02:16:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 03:16:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Efpaz-0005zI-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:15:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Efpay-0007Fr-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:15:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.229.221.88 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1132971161 30201 127.0.0.1 (26 Nov 2005 02:12:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:12:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.229.221.88; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135760 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31362 Archived-At: > when emacs displays 'extra' information, i.e. the results from M-x > apropos it splits the frame in two windows vertically. Now, I > generally prefer vertical splits, and would like this to be the > default. I'd say switch-to-buffer-other-window is a likely spot for advise. But a bug report might do better in the long run. That calls pop-to-buffer which hard codes nil in it's call to display-buffer. Fdisplay_buffer (buf, other_window, Qnil) This could easily pass a customizable boolean variable. Since I have several cinema style monitors I would definitely be flipping that toggle were it available.