Re: Why can only view at most TWO windows?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.2296.1228815867.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:35 AM, seberino@spawar.navy.mil
> <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 11:44 am, Ian Eure <i...@digg.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Try:
> >> C-x 2 - split-window-vertically
> >> C-x 3 - split-window-horizontally
> >>
> >>   - Ian
> >
> > That works.....doing switch-to-buffer-other-window multiple times does
> > not.
> 
> It is not supposed to split the current window. Do you think the doc
> string need to be enhanced?

Or the name?  "other-window" seems pretty obvious to me that it will use 
the other window that's already there.  The only time it needs to create 
a new window is when there isn't any "other" window.

Sounds like he wants a function switch-to-buffer-new-window that always 
splits the window.  Take a look at the source code of 
switch-to-buffer-other-window, I think it should be pretty easy to write 
a command that splits the window unconditionally.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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