Differences with side-by-side modification

[tolugboji]

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On Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 9:57 AM, Michael Heerdegen 
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> tolugboji tolugboji@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Have done `M-x ediff-files` and `M-x ediff-buffers`, but the two files
> >
> > are put one on top of each other, rather than side-by-side. What setting
> >
> > do I need to do to change to side-by-side?
>
> Customize `ediff-split-window-function'. You can also just toggle with
>
> the key | in any Ediff session.
>
> Michael.

Got confused on what to do because the window seemed to recognise the mouse
over options, but pressing mouse button did nothing.  I repeatedly used
| which toggled between vertical and horizontal placement.  Takes some
time to got used to this emacs thing.  But I think I can do things that
I cannot do on other editors.