From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frederik Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on splitting windows Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:18:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <405BCC9ABC664EC3BFF6730E1FCF1A82@us.oracle.com> <874o1xm080.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312489169 2245 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 20:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 22:19:26 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 1Qp4O3-0003Wf-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:19:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4O2-0005yj-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4Nx-0005xp-3O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4Nv-00078S-UK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4Nv-00078M-Lc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4Ns-0003Ql-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:19:12 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-094-218-041-170.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.218.41.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:19:12 +0200 Original-Received: from freak.fred by dslb-094-218-041-170.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:19:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-218-041-170.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <874o1xm080.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81884 Archived-At: >> I agree -- it's quite a good pointer, but splitting horizontally would >> be even better... >> >> Thanks & regards > > You can muck with split-width-threshold and split-height-threshold to > make behave the way you want. > Jup, that's it. Thanks! The docstring of `split-window-sensibly' is most helpful: C-h f split-window-sensibly RET Regards -- Frederik