Can one make emacs23 always split vertically?

Can one make emacs23 always split vertically?

[Steinar Bang]

With emacs23, when the window is wide, on commands like `M-x occur RET'
and `M-x grep RET' emacs will split horizontally and show the results in
the right window.

I find that behaviour very annoying.  Does anyone know the magic elisp
incantations to make emacs always splut vertically?

Thanks!


- Steinar

Re: Can one make emacs23 always split vertically?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> I find that behaviour very annoying.  Does anyone know the magic elisp
> incantations to make emacs always splut vertically?
(setq split-width-threshold nil)
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Re: Can one make emacs23 always split vertically?

[Perry Smith]

On May 10, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> 
>> I find that behaviour very annoying.  Does anyone know the magic elisp
>> incantations to make emacs always splut vertically?
> (setq split-width-threshold nil)

There is a thread on this just a month or two back.  Setting it to nil is the recommended way.  I find that setting it to something large works better for me.  I have mine set to 1600.

HTH,
pedz

Re: Can one make emacs23 always split vertically?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>:

> On May 10, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>> I find that behaviour very annoying.  Does anyone know the magic
>>> elisp incantations to make emacs always splut vertically?

>> (setq split-width-threshold nil)

> There is a thread on this just a month or two back.  Setting it to nil
> is the recommended way.  I find that setting it to something large
> works better for me.  I have mine set to 1600.

Thanx to both!  I've customized it to nil, and that worked fine for me.