From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johan Lindström Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Window annoyances (was Some annoying behaviours) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:54:54 +0000 Message-ID: References: <517586d2-c7ea-4490-8802-f52bde9f43c6@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <517586d2-c7ea-4490-8802-f52bde9f43c6@o77g2000hsf.googlegro ups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203872933 2051 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 17:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:08:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 18:09:18 2008 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 4.50) id 1JTKLl-000339-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:09:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTKLF-0000aC-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTIFp-0001VG-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTIFo-0001Ug-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTIFo-0001UL-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail1.melmac.se ([194.23.215.40]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTIFn-0007pQ-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23503 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2008 14:54:55 -0000 Original-Received: from 87-194-221-83.bethere.co.uk (HELO JpL.DarSerMan.com) (johanl@darserman.com@87.194.221.83) by mail1.melmac.se with ESMTPA; 24 Feb 2008 14:54:55 -0000 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 In-Reply-To: <517586d2-c7ea-4490-8802-f52bde9f43c6@o77g2000hsf.googlegro ups.com> Original-References: <517586d2-c7ea-4490-8802-f52bde9f43c6@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:07:29 -0500 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:51823 Archived-At: At 09:21 2008-02-24, rustom wrote: >When I want to compare to buffers using ediff-buffers, I often want >the buffers side-by-side (C-x 3) rather than the default one-above- >other (C-x 2). Even if I take the trouble to arrange the windows as I >want and then invoke ediff-buffers emacs is adamant enough to remake >the windows up-down, quite ignoring my configuration! M-x customize-variable ediff-split-window-function Set it to split-window-horizontally /J