Re: compile, next-error, and vertical frame splitting

[kent williams <nkwmailinglists@gmail.com>]

Thanks. Actually it is documented in NEWS, and I'd looked through it,
but I didn't make the connection between the 'split-window-sensibly'
thing and compilation.

At any rate setting split-width-threshold to nil gets the desired
behavior... well, the behavior I was desiring.


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 12:17:17 -0500
>> From: kent williams <nkwmailinglists@gmail.com>
>>
>> Somewhere between Emacs 22 and Emacs 23, a behavior changed:  If you
>> run a compile, and it's the only window (i.e. if you type C-x 1), when
>> I use the next-error (C-x `) command, it splits the window vertically
>> -- i.e. the source file is next to the compilation buffer.  It used to
>> split it horizontally, so that the source file is under the
>> compilation buffer.
>>
>> I want the old behavior back.  The vertically split frame makes the
>> error messages hard to read due to word wrap.
>>
>> Is there some option I can set or do I have to hack into the lisp code?
>
> The new behavior tries to be smart, and decides how to split based on
> the dimensions of the frame.  You can customize this behavior by
> setting split-height-threshold and split-width-threshold.  See the
> documentation of these variables and of split-window-preferred-function.
>
> This is all in NEWS, btw.
>
>