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)