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

[Romain Francoise]

Bastien <bzgNOSPAM@altern.org> writes:

> everything is in the subject line: i would like
> `switch-to-buffer-other-window' to split the window *vertically* when
> no other window is open.

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.

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))

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