From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x compile and window splitting Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:45:15 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ljpis47s.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241095594 5638 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2009 12:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Frank Schmitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 14:46:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LzVeh-0000Et-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LzVeg-0004wz-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LzVde-00047m-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LzVda-00043D-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46078 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LzVdZ-000430-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:55125) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LzVdY-0001Kh-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LzVdU-0004oJ-68; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:45:08 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Frank Schmitt's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:31:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110576 Archived-At: > I like the change that the window is split vertically instead of > horizontally, however I see some issues: > > - compilation-window-height looses its meaning (the variable is not > mentioned in info but shows up in M-x customize-group compilation) Perhaps this calls for a buffer-local variable that defines how to split windows in a specific mode. > - there doesn't seem to exist a possibility to influence the width of > the new window Vertical and horizontal splittings are not symmetrical, so setting the width of the new window is not as useful as setting its height. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/