Vertical window split by default

Vertical window split by default

[etay.meiri]

Hi,

When I execute a shell command such as grep or make emacs
automatically splits the screen horizontally and executes the command
on the right hand side.
How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
lower window?

Thanks,

-Etay

Re: Vertical window split by default

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.03.2009 um 09:00 schrieb etay.meiri:

> How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
> lower window?

Make the frame higher than wide.

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Re: Vertical window split by default

[etay.meiri]

That means that I can't use the full width of my 24' monitor.
I prefer using emacs in one large frame and I only split it
horizontally to see sources side-by-side.

-Etay

On Mar 20, 11:32 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 20.03.2009 um 09:00 schrieb etay.meiri:
>
> > How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
> > lower window?
>
> Make the frame higher than wide.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> Math illiteracy affects 7 out of every 5 Americans.

Re: Vertical window split by default

[thierry.volpiatto]

Hi,
i didn't follow this post, so i don't know what you want to do exactly,
but may be you will be interested to toggle the split
vertically/horizontally like ediff do.
Have a look at the function `traverse-toggle-split-window-h-v' in
traverselisp.el.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/traverselisp.el


etay.meiri@gmail.com writes:

> That means that I can't use the full width of my 24' monitor.
> I prefer using emacs in one large frame and I only split it
> horizontally to see sources side-by-side.
>
> -Etay
>
> On Mar 20, 11:32 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
>> Am 20.03.2009 um 09:00 schrieb etay.meiri:
>>
>> > How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
>> > lower window?
>>
>> Make the frame higher than wide.
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>    Pete
>>
>> Math illiteracy affects 7 out of every 5 Americans.
>
>

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Re: Vertical window split by default

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.03.2009 um 11:00 schrieb etay.meiri:

> That means that I can't use the full width of my 24' monitor.
> I prefer using emacs in one large frame and I only split it
> horizontally to see sources side-by-side.


There seem to be other means which also might work. Every few months  
this topic is raised again and was already recorded in depth in the  
archive. I don't obscure my whole screen with one single application  
– not really a Losedos user. The applications I prefer can exist in a  
manifold on screen – and mostly in a portrait like mood (before  
computers, I mean the not so huge ones, those without valves and  
relais, were invented I could read – bad manners probably).

If you have some time left you could also investigate inside the GNU  
Emacs documentation.

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   Pete

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fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Re: Vertical window split by default

[weber]

On 20 mar, 05:00, etay.me...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I execute a shell command such as grep or make emacs
> automatically splits the screen horizontally and executes the command
> on the right hand side.
> How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
> lower window?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Etay

I use a tweaked version of this function for centuries:
http://tsdh.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/automatically-split-window-horizontally-if-current-window-is-wide-enough/
Cheers,
weber

Re: Vertical window split by default

[Chris McMahan]

etay.meiri@gmail.com writes:

> Hi,
>
> When I execute a shell command such as grep or make emacs
> automatically splits the screen horizontally and executes the command
> on the right hand side.
> How can I get it to split vertically and execute the command on the
> lower window?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Etay

If you're using emacs 23, you can adjust the value of 
split-width-threshold.

Here's the documentation:

: split-width-threshold is a variable defined in `window.el'.
: Its value is 192
: 
: Documentation:
: Minimum width of window to be split horizontally.
: If the value is a number, `display-buffer' can split a window
: only if it has at least as many columns.  If the value is nil,
: `display-buffer' cannoCt split a window horizontally.
: 
: You can customize this variable.
: 
: This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
: version 23.1 of Emacs.

I have it set to a value wider than my current diminutive moniter (MSI
Wind netbook) can handle, and the splits are now occurring vertically
instead of horizontally.

- Chris

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Re: Vertical window split by default

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 14:34, Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net> wrote:

: If the value is nil,
: `display-buffer' cannoCt split a window horizontally.

> I have it set to a value wider than my current diminutive moniter (MSI
> Wind netbook) can handle, and the splits are now occurring vertically
> instead of horizontally.

Why aren't you just setting it to nil?

    Juanma

Re: Vertical window split by default

[Chris McMahan]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 14:34, Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net> wrote:
>
> : If the value is nil,
> : `display-buffer' cannoCt split a window horizontally.
>
>> I have it set to a value wider than my current diminutive moniter (MSI
>> Wind netbook) can handle, and the splits are now occurring vertically
>> instead of horizontally.
>
> Why aren't you just setting it to nil?
>
>     Juanma

Umm.... (shuffling feet) ...

I dunno! :)

(changed to nil)

- Chris



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