Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3

[martin rudalics]

> Sorry, but may I ask what is the problem with the traditional names of
> these commands?

Confusion of operation and state based reasoning.  People adopting the
latter were surprised that a horizontal split would produce a vertical
divider (among them ISTR Glenn Morris, Miles Bader and some people on
help-gnu-emacs).

> They seem to fit well into the systematics of other commands like
> mouse-split-window-{horizontally,vertically}

These should be probably renamed as well.

> and
> {enlarge,shrink}-window-horizontally.

Resizing is different because action- and state-based reasoning
coincide.

> Or is the plan to rename all
> of them?

martin