Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open

[Thierry Volpiatto]

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Ah yes but I tried it and it fails because I'm using emacs 22.1 and
> I'm not able to upgrade emacs on this machine.
>
>>
>>  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).
>>
>
> So I guess there's no way to do so in my case.
>
> thanks

You can, alternatively, write in your .emacs something like:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(find-file file1)
(split-window-horizontally)
(find-file-other-window file2)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and you can save this config with:

(window-configuration-to-register 119 nil) ;;119 == w

But you can choose something else:

save your config with C-x r w ==> choose a letter ==> RET

Then hit C-x esc esc and copy the line in minibuffer in your .emacs

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