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From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annoying change in "other window" behavior
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:34:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E539030.4070406@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E534EDA.3040103@arlsoft.com>


> After I type "o" it used to look like:
> 
>     +-----------------------------------------+
>     |  Dired buffer                           |
>     |  ...>file #1                           |
>     |  ... file #2                            |
>     |  ... file #3                            |
>     |  ... file #4                            |
>     |                                         |
>     +-----------------------------------------+
>     |  This window now displays the contents  |
>     |  of file #1.                            |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     +-----------------------------------------+
> 
> BUT NOW it looks like:
> 
>     +--------------------+--------------------+
>     |  Dired buffer      |  This window now   |
>     |  ...>file #1      |  displays the      |
>     |  ... file #2       |  contents of       |
>     |  ... file #3       |  file #1.          |
>     |  ... file #4          |                    |
>     |                    |                    |
>     +--------------------+--------------------+
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     |                                         |
>     +-----------------------------------------+
> 

setting the value of split-width-threshold variable to a larger value 
might help;
maybe something like this will make a difference:
(setq split-width-threshold 300)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-23  6:55 Annoying change in "other window" behavior MBR
2011-08-23  8:26 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-23 16:14   ` MBR
2011-08-23  8:30 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-23 11:34 ` Bernardo [this message]
2011-08-23 16:34   ` MBR
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1818.1314117273.939.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-08-24  5:51     ` Jason Rumney
2011-08-24 16:11       ` MBR

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