Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3

[anerbenartzi]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> 
> Martin recently introduced the command names
> 
>   split-window-above-each-other -> C-x 2
>   split-window-side-by-side     -> C-x 3
> 
> for which split-window-{vertically|horizontally} are now aliases.
> 
> ...
> 
> How about split-window-by-width or split-window-by-height?  Or can
> someone suggest something better?
> 
> 
> 

The main problem with split-window-(by-height | horizontally | left-right)
is that you don't know if the windows will be arranged/stacked in that
direction, or the split action is being done with a cut in that direction
(which is why Jambunathan introduced the extra 'stacked-by')

To an English speaker, top-bottom/left-right are pretty clear about this,
but there's still room for ambiguity, and maybe more-so in other languages. 
Maybe a more explicit version:

split-window-new-on-right
split-window-new-on-bottom

This also disambiguates where the new vs existing windows will be arranged
(not entirely obvious for languages that write right->left).
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