From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:33:21 +0200 Message-ID: <86a5cytbj2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a5cyv6vt.fsf@gnu.org> <6663acd6-d378-4b3d-9bf2-ce0a24c0766f@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14685"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicolas.despres@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics , Stefan Monnier Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 18:34:12 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tMW1r-0003f8-Uo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:34:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tMW19-0008HI-Dd; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tMW17-0008H9-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tMW16-0005uo-Rh; Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:33:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=vVVXl8BejkHuCEi4htMQBMbkC+JGd8oiGdGY+Xp/l3M=; b=PGoDxwTIfXJd9vLrcy3Y vAA0/iS9ORK7AYHvtfDc20wOESDEBaY45Efnozd62jAQ6MZXOfdEc9V+rqUSjELKiwwl7RTxRIxQQ WQSyfRf0zbCdTyRwQL2Wl7TGoBj+JZbWzbeDSD6g2Eqt795F7FSpfw4qlhIe797TOZbPovdoEAUP/ P4I8/Vp5URFgywNSCrhoDlW0sNrZ8BUvBQjyV1z1mnzgv+cYIP2hJLgS9SIBiHEiQ9L+25371L738 3kLZywmpkPxXalMMWAYOYPUgZ9p+lSkHlRrWWMo7CuwECd6+WcBfco90mDe1MawnSGTwEVC2bbTf9 lYPQ/ZZCQFvMVg==; In-Reply-To: <6663acd6-d378-4b3d-9bf2-ce0a24c0766f@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:16:14 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:326496 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:16:14 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: martin rudalics > > > I add martin to this discussion, since I expect him to have a lot of > > insight on these matters. > > 'split-window-sensibly' (initially called 'window--try-to-split-window') > was written by Stefan Monnier and was supposed to subsume the > functionality of 'split-window-preferred-horizontally' (written by Juri > Linkov). Both know more about this issue than I do. > > I only recall that initially many people hated the idea that it would > make a window on the right and subsequently set 'split-width-threshold' > to nil (Bug#431, Bug33929). I'm afraid that changing the default > behavior again may lead to similar reactions even if people who set > ‘split-width-threshold’ to nil should not be affected. > > So whatever you do here please read the reports on Bug#1806, Bug#3142, > Bug#20189 (unless you have done so already) first and also do a search > for 'split-width-threshold' on emacs-devel. Thanks, I added Stefan and Juri to the discussion.