Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open

[Nick Roberts]

Francis Moreau writes:
 > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
 > >  If you can't find anything in the Emacs info node, then send a bug
 > >  report (from Help menu) in which you ask to add customisation to set
 > >  a preference for vertical or horizontal splitting.
 > >
 > 
 > I couldn't have found anything revelant.
 > 
 > I'll send a bug report if nothing interesting can come up from this thread.

Bastien has already answered your question:

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

and select the value "horizontally".

I don't know where the docstring he quoted is from because this option seems to
only be in Emacs 23.0.60 in the CVS repository and will not be part of the next
release (22.2).

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