From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: split-window-preferred-function
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:57:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6dlydyp.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F61CDD.6030700@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:19:41 +0200")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>>+----------------+--------------------------------+
>>>| | |
>>>| 80 columns | 160 columns |
>>>| | |
>>>| | |
>>>| | |
>>>| | |
>>>+----------------+--------------------------------+
>>>
>>>When the right window is wide enough to be split horizontally, and
>>>point is in the left window, what is the best to do here?
>>>
>>>1. display a buffer in the right window without splitting it;
>>>2. split the wide right window horizontally and display a buffer
>>> in a new window;
>>>3. split the left window vertically (this option is preferable
>>> for some buffers, e.g. for calendar)
>>
>>
>> By default I'd say the splitting functions only check if the current
>> window is wide/high enough. So I the case above if horizontal splitting
>> is preferred and split-width-threshold is more than 40, the horizontal
>> splitting function would not be applicable and return nil. The vertical
>> splitting function is the next and checks if the left window is higher
>> than split-height-threshold (the default should be changed to something
>> like 40). If it is, then option 3 would be done. If not, then it would
>> return nil, too. In that case display-buffer would reuse the LRU window
>> which is the right one.
>>
>> I think that's a sensible default. Users are free to add other
>> functions. For example the splitting functions could be extended to
>> search through all windows of the current frame to find one that's large
>> enough for a horizontal/vertical split.
>
> Sounds reasonable. Currently, `display-buffer' searches for the
> largest window and tries to split it regardless of which window is
> selected. It usually doesn't because the default value of
> `split-height-threshold' prevents splitting.
Ah, ok. Then using the largest window for splitting should stay the
default, with sensible default values for
split-{width,height}-threshold, e.g. 80 and 40.
Bye,
Tassilo
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-19 21:42 split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-03-20 23:02 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-21 1:47 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-03-22 1:07 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-22 16:36 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-03-23 2:16 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-27 23:44 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-28 19:50 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-03-29 0:45 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-29 9:05 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-03-29 12:30 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-03-29 13:25 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-03-29 19:42 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 5:49 ` split-window-preferred-function Richard Stallman
2008-04-02 8:53 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-02 9:36 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-02 9:58 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-02 10:30 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-02 12:13 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-02 12:33 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-02 22:26 ` split-window-preferred-function David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-02 15:18 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-04-02 17:00 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-02 22:27 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-04-03 6:49 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-03 22:52 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-04-04 6:50 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-03 7:02 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-03 22:54 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
2008-04-04 10:04 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-04 12:19 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-04 12:57 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2008-04-04 13:55 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-04-04 17:21 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-04 20:21 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-04-04 22:14 ` split-window-preferred-function Tassilo Horn
2008-04-04 23:52 ` split-window-preferred-function Stefan Monnier
2008-03-21 9:18 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-03-22 1:09 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-05 12:36 split-window-preferred-function grischka
2008-04-05 15:42 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-05 18:35 ` split-window-preferred-function grischka
2008-04-05 22:02 ` split-window-preferred-function martin rudalics
2008-04-06 16:45 ` split-window-preferred-function grischka
2008-04-06 20:35 ` split-window-preferred-function Juri Linkov
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