Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Stephan Kuhagen]

My dear Emacs Wizards!

Although I'm using the mighty Emacs for nearly 16 years now, I encountered a
new problem with its behaviour (of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs,
but of the now mainstream 16:10 displays): When I start Emacs with two
files (often a *cpp, and its *h), Emacs opens the two buffers in two
windows, one above and one below a horizontal splitter. I like to have them
left and right from a vertical splitter. Is there a switch or some magic
lisp setting, I can add to my .emacs to make Emacs do this?

Regards and thanks
Stephan

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Alexey Pustyntsev]

Stephan Kuhagen <nospam@domain.tld> writes:

> My dear Emacs Wizards!
>
> Although I'm using the mighty Emacs for nearly 16 years now, I encountered a
> new problem with its behaviour (of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs,
> but of the now mainstream 16:10 displays): When I start Emacs with two
> files (often a *cpp, and its *h), Emacs opens the two buffers in two
> windows, one above and one below a horizontal splitter. I like to have them
> left and right from a vertical splitter. Is there a switch or some magic
> lisp setting, I can add to my .emacs to make Emacs do this?
>
> Regards and thanks
> Stephan
>
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How about

(setq split-window-horizontally t) ?

-- 
Rgds
Alexey

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:50:54 +0100 Stephan Kuhagen wrote:


> of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs, but of the now
> mainstream 16:10 displays

You can rotate it and use the xrandr extension :)

David

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Stephan Kuhagen]

Alexey Pustyntsev wrote:

> How about
> 
> (setq split-window-horizontally t) ?

No, doesn't change anything, although in a running Emacs it is exactly the
command to split the windows like I want to. But does not change the
startup behaviour.

Stephan

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Stephan Kuhagen]

David Hansen wrote:

> You can rotate it and use the xrandr extension :)

Sure, I had that idea too, but I did not manage to move my eyes above and
below my nose to get a vertical extended viewing field... ;-)

Stephan

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Alexey Pustyntsev]

Stephan Kuhagen <nospam@domain.tld> writes:

> Alexey Pustyntsev wrote:
>
>> How about
>> 
>> (setq split-window-horizontally t) ?
>
> No, doesn't change anything, although in a running Emacs it is exactly the
> command to split the windows like I want to. But does not change the
> startup behaviour.
>
> Stephan

Thanks to Juri Linkov, I borrowed the following code from his nice
site 

http://www.jurta.org/emacs


(add-hook 'after-init-hook
          (lambda ()
            ;; Show home directory on left pane, and last visited file on right
            (split-window-horizontally)
            (dired (my-home ?h)))
          ;; Note that 3-rd argument of this `add-hook' should be `t'
          ;; to append the call of the `dired' after other hooked functions,
          ;; most importantly after `desktop-read'.
          t)


The above code works all right for me and does split the window as you
asked. Hopefully, that may help you.


-- 
Rgds
Alexey

Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Although I'm using the mighty Emacs for nearly 16 years now, I encountered a
>> new problem with its behaviour (of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs,
>> but of the now mainstream 16:10 displays): When I start Emacs with two
>> files (often a *cpp, and its *h), Emacs opens the two buffers in two
>> windows, one above and one below a horizontal splitter. I like to have them
>> left and right from a vertical splitter. Is there a switch or some magic
>> lisp setting, I can add to my .emacs to make Emacs do this?

> (setq split-window-horizontally t) ?

I can't see any mention of this variable in Emacs's sources.  Looking at the
code of display-buffer, I think the only solution is to write a new function
that does the same (except split horizontally) and then place it on
display-buffer-function :-(


        Stefan