From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> <4EA7D14A.5020902@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319905121 25027 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2011 16:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 18:18:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKBcC-00022h-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKBcB-0000R7-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKBcA-0000R2-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKBc9-0000RB-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:43789 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKBc7-0000Lf-Si; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:31 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAFwmrE5MCrTo/2dsb2JhbABCqWeBBoFyAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBWzIIkCBKFEhEU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,424,1315195200"; d="scan'208";a="145105547" Original-Received: from 76-10-180-232.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.180.232]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 29 Oct 2011 12:18:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 928B558E17; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4EA7D14A.5020902@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:22:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145768 Archived-At: > The "split-" prefix has purely operational connotation and application > programmers as users are only interested in the state produced but > hardly how it was obtained. That's why split-window is much more used as a command than as a function. And split-window-below (or whatever name we end up using for it) is purely a command: Elisp code can just as well use (split-window nil nil 'below). Elisp code generally prefers using display-buffer and other functions of that family. Most other Elisp code using split-window falls in the category of Gnus/MPC/GUD/Younameit which want to setup a particular window-configuration and use split-window because that's the only thing they have. Stefan