opening two files side-by-side by default

opening two files side-by-side by default

[Andrei Makeev]

Hello,

sorry for a naive question:
how to make emacs open two files,

emacs -nw file1.txt file2.txt

such that the two files are positioned
side-by-side right away, instead of (default
setting) one above the other?
I believe I should put something involving
(split-window-horizontally) in my .emacs
files, but don't know how to do it exactly.

Thanks!
~Andrei.

Re: opening two files side-by-side by default

[B. T. Raven]

Andrei Makeev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for a naive question:
> how to make emacs open two files,
> 
> emacs -nw file1.txt file2.txt
> 
> such that the two files are positioned
> side-by-side right away, instead of (default
> setting) one above the other?
> I believe I should put something involving
> (split-window-horizontally) in my .emacs
> files, but don't know how to do it exactly.
> 
> Thanks!
> ~Andrei.

It looks like 'split-window-preferred-function should do this in ver. 23
 I set it to 'split-window-horizontally and saved this option to .emacs.
But then running emacs -nw f1 f2 opened the two new buffers vertically
anyway. Try making the function 'split-window-sensibly and then setting
split-height-threshold and/or split-width-threshold to small values or nil.
Also maybe (delete-other-windows) and (split-window-horizontally) as the
last two forms in your .emacs might at least give you the layout,
although the same buffer will be in the two windows.


Ed