Re: Changing horizontal window split default to vertical?

[Alexey Pustyntsev]

Stephan Kuhagen <nospam@domain.tld> writes:

> My dear Emacs Wizards!
>
> Although I'm using the mighty Emacs for nearly 16 years now, I encountered a
> new problem with its behaviour (of course, this is not the guilt of Emacs,
> but of the now mainstream 16:10 displays): When I start Emacs with two
> files (often a *cpp, and its *h), Emacs opens the two buffers in two
> windows, one above and one below a horizontal splitter. I like to have them
> left and right from a vertical splitter. Is there a switch or some magic
> lisp setting, I can add to my .emacs to make Emacs do this?
>
> Regards and thanks
> Stephan
>
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How about

(setq split-window-horizontally t) ?

-- 
Rgds
Alexey