From: anerbenartzi <anerbenartzi@gmail.com>
To: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:36:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32722940.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org>
Chong Yidong wrote:
>
> Martin recently introduced the command names
>
> split-window-above-each-other -> C-x 2
> split-window-side-by-side -> C-x 3
>
> for which split-window-{vertically|horizontally} are now aliases.
>
> ...
>
> How about split-window-by-width or split-window-by-height? Or can
> someone suggest something better?
>
>
>
The main problem with split-window-(by-height | horizontally | left-right)
is that you don't know if the windows will be arranged/stacked in that
direction, or the split action is being done with a cut in that direction
(which is why Jambunathan introduced the extra 'stacked-by')
To an English speaker, top-bottom/left-right are pretty clear about this,
but there's still room for ambiguity, and maybe more-so in other languages.
Maybe a more explicit version:
split-window-new-on-right
split-window-new-on-bottom
This also disambiguates where the new vs existing windows will be arranged
(not entirely obvious for languages that write right->left).
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 2:30 C-x 2 and C-x 3 Chong Yidong
2011-10-26 3:38 ` Evil Boris
2011-10-26 4:35 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-26 5:38 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-26 11:47 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-26 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-26 19:19 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-26 19:40 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-27 5:27 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-26 12:13 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-26 12:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 13:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 13:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 14:19 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-26 15:25 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-27 6:36 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-26 14:58 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 15:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 15:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 15:56 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 15:28 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-26 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 8:41 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-10-26 9:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-26 12:20 ` Nix
2011-10-27 16:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-26 21:47 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-26 9:22 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 1:04 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29 1:06 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29 1:10 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29 8:16 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 9:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 10:27 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-29 14:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-29 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-30 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-30 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-29 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 10:20 ` anerbenartzi
2011-10-26 10:36 ` anerbenartzi [this message]
2011-10-26 10:59 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-26 11:15 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 14:32 ` Lluís
2011-10-27 6:33 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-27 11:08 ` Lluís
2011-10-27 14:04 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 14:16 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 16:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-27 16:41 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 16:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-27 17:09 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 20:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-10-28 0:14 ` John Yates
2011-10-28 9:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-29 1:00 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-28 6:32 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-28 15:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 0:56 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-26 15:36 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-26 18:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-26 18:42 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-27 6:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-27 9:49 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 12:31 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-27 13:22 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-28 6:34 ` What is ISO? (was: C-x 2 and C-x 3) Juri Linkov
2011-10-28 17:16 ` What is ISO? martin rudalics
2011-10-29 3:57 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 8:59 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 10:29 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-30 1:00 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-30 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 7:30 ` Andreas Röhler
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2011-10-26 17:01 C-x 2 and C-x 3 grischka
2011-10-26 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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