From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:24:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmz38m962.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4804.1171958583.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-20 5:50 Changing horizontal window split default to vertical? Stephan Kuhagen
2007-02-20 8:18 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2007-02-20 8:28 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.4805.1171960713.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-20 9:33 ` Stephan Kuhagen
[not found] ` <mailman.4804.1171958583.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-20 8:33 ` Stephan Kuhagen
2007-02-20 13:39 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2007-02-21 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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