From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Want old "*compilation*" behavior back! Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:17:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4DD2919F.6030304@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305645489 24518 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2011 15:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: vmontressor@yahoo.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 17:18:06 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 1QMM28-0000fM-CK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 17:18:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMM27-00069d-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 11:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMM22-00069X-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 11:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMM21-0000fT-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 11:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:39498) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMM21-0000fJ-1Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 11:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 May 2011 15:17:52 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-46-239.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.46.239]) [62.47.46.239] by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 17 May 2011 17:17:52 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/2UmhM/532aoQ7rLF2bLojVSow0GBigABAE2WEIq RgVjDnVPtwyzQ/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-References: 225937.10593.qm@web161403.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 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:80992 Archived-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