Re: Want old "*compilation*" behavior back!

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > Ah, you're right about the "buffer" vs. "window" and horizontal vs. vertical
 > confusion; sorry about that.

You're not the first one ;-)

 > But yes, it does the same unwanted thing with "emacs -Q" as well.  And it seems
 > (from experimenting) that split-height/width-threshold don't control this.  Any
 > other thoughts?
 >
 > I would be 90% satisfied with just solving this for *compilation*, and close to
 > 100% satisfied if this got solved for *grep* as well.
 >
 > (I'm encouraged that it doesn't seem to do this in the most recent builds, at
 > least not for you.  Maybe this was just an aberration in the version I'm using?)

I don't remember.  But I completely fail to understand that setting
`split-height-threshold' and `split-width-threshold' to nil or very
large values can allow `display-buffer' to split a window (unless
there's only one window on the frame).  Which values did you try?

martin