deciding how windows split

deciding how windows split

[J. David Boyd]

I like my 'normal' behavior, where any command that creates a new window (like
'grep') opens the new window under where my current window is.

I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs stretched
out some.  Now new windows are opening to the right of the current one.

Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under my
current one.

I tried using customize-apropos on words that sounded like they might be what
I wanted, but can't find anything like that.

Thanks,

Dave

Re: deciding how windows split

[Thorsten Jolitz]

david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> I like my 'normal' behavior, where any command that creates a new
> window (like 'grep') opens the new window under where my current
> window is.
>
> I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs
> stretched out some. Now new windows are opening to the right of the
> current one.
>
> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under
> my current one.
>
> I tried using customize-apropos on words that sounded like they might
> be what I wanted, but can't find anything like that.

maybe 

M-x customize-variable RET split-window-preferred-function

?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: deciding how windows split

[Bernardo]

> I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs stretched
> out some.  Now new windows are opening to the right of the current one.
> 
> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under my
> current one.

adjust the value of split-width-threshold?

Re: deciding how windows split

[J. David Boyd]

Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com> writes:

>> I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs stretched
>> out some.  Now new windows are opening to the right of the current one.
>>
>> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under my
>> current one.
>
> adjust the value of split-width-threshold?

Thanks, set it to 400, not it never splits sideways....

Re: deciding how windows split

[J. David Boyd]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> I like my 'normal' behavior, where any command that creates a new
>> window (like 'grep') opens the new window under where my current
>> window is.
>>
>> I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs
>> stretched out some. Now new windows are opening to the right of the
>> current one.
>>
>> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under
>> my current one.
>>
>> I tried using customize-apropos on words that sounded like they might
>> be what I wanted, but can't find anything like that.
>
> maybe 
>
> M-x customize-variable RET split-window-preferred-function
>
> ?

Thanks, that's what I was looking for!

Re: deciding how windows split

[Bob Proulx]

J. David Boyd wrote:
> Thorsten Jolitz writes:
> > J. David Boyd writes:
> >> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under
> >> my current one.
> >
> > maybe 
> > M-x customize-variable RET split-window-preferred-function
> 
> Thanks, that's what I was looking for!

I always set this in my .emacs file to force thet raditional vertical
window splitting.  Splitting horizontally does not work well with my
preferred window layout.

  (setq split-width-threshold nil)

Bob