Re: M-x compile and window splitting

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> Are the lines below more helpful?

Yes, definitely.

> -----------------------------------
> ** Changes affecting display-buffer
>
> +++
> *** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting an existing window.
>
> +++
> **** The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you either
> choose among a number of standard methods to split the window or provide
> your own splitting function.
>
> +++
> **** The new function split-window-sensibly which provides the default
> value for split-window-preferred-function tries to split a window
> horizontally when vertical splitting fails.
>
> +++
> **** split-height-threshold and the new option split-width-threshold let
> you specify in more detail whether and how split-window-sensibly shall
> split the window.
>
> +++
> **** A window can be split vertically even when it's not full-width.
>
> +++
> *** If pop-up-frames has the value `graphic-only', display-buffer
> makes a separate frame on graphic displays only.
>
> +++
> *** select-frame and set-frame-selected-window have a new optional
> argument NORECORD.  If non-nil, this avoids messing with the order of
> recently selected windows and the buffer list and allow to more
> correctly identify the window least recently used when displaying a
> buffer.
> -------
>
>

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