On Feb 21, 2011, at 11:00 AM, martin rudalics wrote: > You can enforce this function to not split WINDOW horizontally,
> by setting (or binding) the variable `split-width-threshold' to
> nil. If, in addition, you set `split-height-threshold' to zero,
> chances increase that this function does split WINDOW vertically.
>
> The last sentence prompted me to set split-height-threshold to 0
> and that is probably why I constantly got smaller and smaller windows
> instead of reusing a previous window.
Replacing "zero" by "a smaller value" might cause less confusion here.
>> Actually it means "don't split windows horizontally" ;-)
>
> Yea. I totally don't understand the language here. A vertically line
> creating two windows is splitting it vertically in my pee sized brain.
> Sorry about that.
I'm afraid every second user interprets this as you did. Unfortunately,
it's not easy to find a less confusing term here. We could replace
"horizontally" by "side-by-side" but I have no idea which term to use
instead of "vertically".
How about "top and bottom" ?
>> What effect were you looking for?
>
> What emacs use to do before split-window-sensibly.
Do you use wide frames so Emacs tries to split them into side-by-side
windows? What are your frame sizes?
Yea. My code is generally 80 columns but I have to widen my frame extra wide to fit Ruby's error messages into one line. At that point, emacs started splitting my screen side-by-side which defected the whole purpose of a wide frame.
> At the time, I concluded that it wasn't a bug in the code but just
> that I misread / misunderstood the documentation. I believe I tried
> setting split-width-threshold to nil and split-height-threshold (after
> trying 0), I tried leaving it alone and it still didn't go back to the
> old method. Setting split-width-threshold to some giant number
> seems to take a different path through the code and gives me
> the old behavior.
If you never want more than two windows per frame the following should
be sufficient:
(setq split-height-threshold nil)
(setq split-width-threshold nil)
Ok. I'll try that.
Thanks, pedz
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