From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: display-buffer annoyance Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:44:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87d3ogptt2.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293893220 12325 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 14:47:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:47:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 15:46:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ2jP-00078E-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:46:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ2jO-0005vT-KJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56023 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ2hU-0004zq-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ2hT-0004cd-8s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ2hT-0004cQ-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:44:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ2hQ-0005yj-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:44:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 13.211.85-79.rev.gaoland.net ([79.85.211.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:44:52 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 13.211.85-79.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:44:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 13.211.85-79.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GYTM2uu6lICF4oH+m+XzgFY6rLE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78019 Archived-At: "K. Richard Pixley" writes: > Ordinarily, things that use display-buffer and friends, (eg, the C-x 4 > commands), split my window vertically. > > If my window is very wide, they split it horizontally. While I > appreciate that this is completely reasonable default behavior, I find > it annoying and would prefer that M-x compile, M-x debug, M-x grep, > and friends would always split horizontally. > > Is there a configuration for this? (The only one I find is > pop-up-frames which isn't quite what I want.) Indeed annoying: (setq split-width-threshold nil) > --rich > -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997