Re: want user option for pop-to-buffer to split window horizontally not vertical

[Walter Gillett]

No, I hadn't heard of iswitchb -- thanks. Certainly useful but doesn't 
address the problem I'm thinking about, namely the ability to globally set 
the window splitting behavior when a command needs to split the window to 
show a buffer. A specific example I'm thinking of is the SVN front-end, 
psvn.el (see http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs/). When you run svn-diff via 
this utility, it always splits the window vertically, because it calls the 
built-in function pop-to-buffer, and that's what pop-to-buffer always does 
(today). I was able to work around this by hacking psvn.el locally & 
replacing the call to pop-to-buffer with code that splits horizontally, but 
clearly it would be more convenient, elegant, and broadly useful if the 
behavior of pop-to-buffer could be configurable.

-Walter

From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: "Walter Gillett" <walter_gillett@hotmail.com>
CC: juri@jurta.org,  bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: want user option for pop-to-buffer to split window horizontally 
not vertical
Date: 15 Dec 2005 22:01:30 +0000

"Walter Gillett" <walter_gillett@hotmail.com> writes:

> Juri-
>
> That would be great, thanks!
>
> -Walter

Just in case... have you heard of iswitchb?

Forgive me if you have.

Just add

  (iswitchb-mode 1)

somewhere in your ~/.emacs and observe the changed behaviour.

(list-buffers) is mapped to `C-x C-b', so you can still use it, and `C-x b' 
is
now mapped to (iswitchb-buffer).  Cycle forward and back through buffers in 
the
echo area using C-s and C-r.  Select them with <RET>, kill them with C-k.  
Add
patterns to iswtich-buffer-ignore if they needn't be listed.

It's far less disruptive and just as functional in my opinion.

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