Re: `split-window-preferred-horizontally'

[martin rudalics]

> BTW, shouldn't `sensibly' be the default?

As soon as we have decided on a reasonable standard behavior.

> Or even the only acceptable setting (besides setting it to
> a home-cooked function)?
> I mean the nil value can be simulated with
>
>    (setq split-width-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
>
> and the `horizontal' value can be emulated with
>
>    (setq split-height-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
>
> If most-positive-fixnum is too inconvenient, we could accept a nil
> setting for the thresholds to mean the same as most-positive-fixnum.

Sounds reasonable.  But how do we present the conventional `vertical'
default value in the customization interface?