Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Although I'm using the mighty Emacs for nearly 16 years now, I encountered a
>> new problem with its behaviour (of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs,
>> but of the now mainstream 16:10 displays): When I start Emacs with two
>> files (often a *cpp, and its *h), Emacs opens the two buffers in two
>> windows, one above and one below a horizontal splitter. I like to have them
>> left and right from a vertical splitter. Is there a switch or some magic
>> lisp setting, I can add to my .emacs to make Emacs do this?

> (setq split-window-horizontally t) ?

I can't see any mention of this variable in Emacs's sources.  Looking at the
code of display-buffer, I think the only solution is to write a new function
that does the same (except split horizontally) and then place it on
display-buffer-function :-(


        Stefan