Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3

[Lluís]

Stefan Monnier writes:

>> split-window-like-🀱
>> split-window-like-🁣

> I like that ;-)

> This said, I agree with Michael that it'd be good if the name made it
> clear which window is the new one (I don't care much whether it uses
> "split" or not, but at least "split" makes it clear that something
> existing will be affected, whereas "new" can make it sound like
> existing windows will stay unchanged).

> So maybe split-window-bottom and split-window-right.

Short and clearer.

Just to add some more noise:

     split-window-new-bottom
     split-window-new-right

so that it's clear that the new window will stay at the bottom of the selected
one (and not the other way around).


Looking at 'split-window', its argument names and documentation should be
changed accordingly (right now it's using the horizontal concept). The optimal
would probably be to pass a symbol to a `where-new' argument (e.g., 'bottom,
'right, etc), but that might just be too disruptive on current code (unless some
backwards-compatible argument parsing code was also present).


Lluis

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