Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3

[martin rudalics]

>   split-window-above-each-other -> C-x 2
>   split-window-side-by-side     -> C-x 3
>
> for which split-window-{vertically|horizontally} are now aliases.
>
> I don't mind the attempt to address the vertical/horizontal ambiguity,
> but the new names aren't ungrammatical.
                           ^^
Wouldn't that be fine ;-)

> In English, "split X above each
> other" sounds like a nonsense phrase, and "split X side by side" isn't
> much better.
>
> How about split-window-by-width or split-window-by-height?  Or can
> someone suggest something better?

`new-window-below' and `new-window-on-right'.  The "split-" prefix has
purely operational connotation and application programmers as users are
only interested in the state produced but hardly how it was obtained.

martin