Re: Suddenly, grep, list-buffers etc. split the screen horizontally... but .emacs is unchanged!

[Joost Kremers]

Tom Ritchford wrote:
> Suddenly, in the middle of a long emacs session (it had been up for
> over a week) my terminal-based emacs -nw now splits horizontally for
> every new window (grep, compilation, list-buffers, etc).  I've used
> emacs for over 25 years and never gotten into this state.

What's the size of the terminal Emacs is running in? Did you change it?
display-buffer (the function usually responsible for splitting buffers to show
output etc.) may split the window horizontally or vertically, depending on the
size of the window. See the documentation for split-window-sensibly for details.


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