From: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annoying change in "other window" behavior
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:34:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E53D67E.8070605@arlsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E539030.4070406@pobox.com>
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Thank you! I just Googled the variable you pointed me to
(split-width-threshold), and instantly turned up the Emacs 23.3 page at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Choosing-Window.html,
which describes the function display-buffer. display-buffer is described
as "the basic facility that chooses a window to display a buffer in."
This sounds like exactly the function I was looking for. The
documentation shown when I run M-x describe-function display-buffer in
21.3 doesn't contain any mention of a variable named
split-width-threshold, which is pretty strong evidence that that feature
wasn't added until some later version.
Mark
On 8/23/2011 7:34 AM, Bernardo wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 16:34 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
2011-08-23 16:34 ` MBR [this message]
[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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