On Jul 22, 2013, at 07:37 PM, martin rudalics wrote:

>It happens because \\[split-window-below] gets substituted by C-x 2.
>
>Why not declare `split-window-keep-point' obsolete and always keep
>point?

Please no!  C-x 2 with split-window-keep-point nil is a *really* important
feature, to me at least.