Re: split-window-{right, below} not interchangeable with split-window-sensibly

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> This large value basically forbids "sensible" vertical splits for
> almost everybody.

No, that's not completely wrong.  `split-window-sensibly' has a final
special case for "there's only one window" where it simply splits
vertically.

But anyway, the result is that on any customary display the first
invocation of `split-window-sensibly' either creates two windows below
or next to each other, and any further invocation does nothing.

That might be problematic.  With split-window-{below,right} you can be
quite sure that a new window is created, while that's not true for
split-window-sensibly.  Well, for ediff it's not because it'll delete
all but one window initially, and sensible splitting in the one-window
scenario is guaranteed to split (with the exception of
window-min-{height,width}, of course).

Bye,
Tassilo