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Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open
From: |
Francis Moreau |
Subject: |
Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:17:45 +0100 |
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
--
Francis