From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying change in "other window" behavior Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <190733f2-a83a-42ea-a2b8-ff1d782db451@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> References: <4E534EDA.3040103@arlsoft.com> <4E539030.4070406@pobox.com> Reply-To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314165127 20733 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2011 05:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 07:52:04 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 1Qw6Ne-0002mm-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw6Ne-0000vk-9a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw6NZ-0000vf-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw6NY-00055g-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f58.google.com ([209.85.210.58]:55704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw6NY-00055a-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk6 with SMTP id 6so132580pzk.13 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.12.15 with SMTP id 15mr703037wfl.66.1314165115416; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=175.136.230.202; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 175.136.230.202 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.58 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:82046 Archived-At: C-h n will give you the NEWS file, explaining all the changes in the latest version of Emacs. In there you will find the answer you are looking for (how to get the old behaviour back): ** Changes affecting display-buffer *** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows. The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own function to pop up new windows. Its default value split-window-sensibly can split a window either vertically or horizontally, whichever seems more suitable in the current configuration. You can tune the behavior of split-window-sensibly by customizing split-height-threshold and the new option split-width-threshold. Both options now take the value nil to inhibit splitting in one direction. Setting split-width-threshold to nil inhibits horizontal splitting and gets you the behavior of Emacs 22 in this respect. In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame. This is for 23.3, for 23.2, you may not have the option of setting it to nil (judging by the wording above, this was added at a later date) but setting it to a very large value (more columns than will fit on your display) should also work.