Re: switch-to-buffer-other-window to split vertically by default ?

[Bastien]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> It's not possible at the moment with a vanilla Emacs, the function that
> splits the window (`display-buffer') is in the C code and isn't easily
> customizable.  This will change after the 22.1 release.

All right, thanks.

> However, if you use Debian's emacs-snapshot version, the following will
> do the trick:
>
> (defadvice switch-to-buffer-other-window (around change-split activate)
>   (let ((display-buffer-prefer-horizontal-split t))
>     ad-do-it))

I use Debian's emacs-snapshot but it doesn't work for me, even with
`display-buffer-prefer-horizontal-split' set to nil (wich seems more
appropriate). 

I can't find any reference to `display-buffer-prefer-horizontal-split'
nor `display-buffer-prefer-vertical-split' with C-h v.

Note that I tried to activate the advice with 

(ad-activate 'switch-to-buffer-other-window)

-- 
bastien