Re: split-window-preferred-function

[Juri Linkov]

>> Maybe a function in `split-window-preferred-function' should take care
>> of all these conditions to decide how to split within a given
>> window configuration?
>
> Writing such a function is not entirely trivial.  Who's supposed to
> write `split-window-preferred-function' in the first place?  Wasn't the
> original motivation of this to simply allow horizontal splitting?

Maybe we should write a horizontal splitting version of
split-window-preferred-function that will split horizontally
if the value of a new boolean user option is non-nil,
or return nil otherwise to continue the standard processing
of vertical splitting?

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/