From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:24:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172032843 8927 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2007 04:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 05:40:37 2007 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 1HJjHQ-000854-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:40:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJjHP-0005Kb-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:24:46 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J2ClNBr0UiXzDJvrnUzUfAlpJdU= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-73Ir2jzWIhYnDWQHzu1fx0jwoDfMP3cf2w17u3MRQS8E/1/OEnnDkvx8HP0lzc3DJq7uF6hOYpbAL2p!N82Z9MVf+agortzFriuZ/QMunt5iLlm4NT3FID5HxnddGnw0pREKm57nce97hlWU5bkO2OcyvZrl!bs0uo6XPCCI3PzmQBQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145763 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:41367 Archived-At: >> 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