Re: limit number and types of windows on 'Compile Command` to 2?

[Tassilo Horn]

ivowel@gmail.com writes:

> I would like to imitate the "old" behavior, where one could only have
> two windows (current plus compile), and they were lower and upper
> windows, not left and right windows.  how would I set this?

Set `split-width-threshold' to a reasonably large value.

,----[ C-h v split-width-threshold RET ]
| split-width-threshold is a variable defined in `window.el'.
| Its value is 152
| Original value was 160
| 
| Documentation:
| Minimum width for splitting windows sensibly.
| If this is an integer, `split-window-sensibly' may split a window
| horizontally only if it has at least this many columns.  If this
| is nil, `split-window-sensibly' is not allowed to split a window
| horizontally.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 23.1 of Emacs.
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Bye,
Tassilo