Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 8:47 AM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

> 'split-window-preferred-function' is well suited for a completely different
> behavior.

There is another aspect that still can't be customized.
The choice of the window to split is hard-coded
in 'display-buffer-pop-up-window'.  It's either
the largest window or lru:

  ;; Attempt to split largest or least recently used window.
  (setq window (or (window--try-to-split-window
                    (get-largest-window frame t) alist)
                   (window--try-to-split-window
                    (get-lru-window frame t) alist)))

Maybe another option needed here as well?

That's right, there is the same logic pattern that could be customized the same way. But that should come in another patch. I could make one if people agree.

What would be the variable name ? split-window-preferred-selection ?

-Nico