From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `split-window-preferred-horizontally' Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:21:52 +0200 Message-ID: <484A4520.1050201@gmx.at> References: <87k5h28i23.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <4849B3D7.6090809@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212826996 27526 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 08:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 08:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Hansen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 10:23:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4tiQ-0005yZ-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4thd-0005Ep-KD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4tgE-0004Ft-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4tgC-0004DS-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34512 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4tgC-0004D1-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52322) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4tgA-0007N2-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Jun 2008 08:21:37 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-38-140.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.38.140]) [62.47.38.140] by mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 07 Jun 2008 10:21:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+MgwpN5HiMh+o/AK/uARloSjPKoCa7wHzuRwKRDG qTqMZAVro2g+8k User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98568 Archived-At: > BTW, shouldn't `sensibly' be the default? As soon as we have decided on a reasonable standard behavior. > Or even the only acceptable setting (besides setting it to > a home-cooked function)? > I mean the nil value can be simulated with > > (setq split-width-threshold most-positive-fixnum) > > and the `horizontal' value can be emulated with > > (setq split-height-threshold most-positive-fixnum) > > If most-positive-fixnum is too inconvenient, we could accept a nil > setting for the thresholds to mean the same as most-positive-fixnum. Sounds reasonable. But how do we present the conventional `vertical' default value in the customization interface?