Re: Want old "*compilation*" behavior back!

[Vincent Montressor]

Ah-hah, you're right!  I just tried

        (setq split-height-threshold nil)

... and that seems to do the trick.  (Misunderstanding what it meant, I had 
tried setting it to small values; I hadn't tried large values or nil.)

I'll have to play with it some more to be sure, but I think I'm fixed.  Thank 
you!



----- Original Message ----
From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: vmontressor@yahoo.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 8:17:51 AM
Subject: Re: Want old "*compilation*" behavior back!

> Ah, you're right about the "buffer" vs. "window" and horizontal vs. vertical
> confusion; sorry about that.

You're not the first one ;-)

> But yes, it does the same unwanted thing with "emacs -Q" as well.  And it 
seems
> (from experimenting) that split-height/width-threshold don't control this.  
Any
> other thoughts?
>
> I would be 90% satisfied with just solving this for *compilation*, and close 
to
> 100% satisfied if this got solved for *grep* as well.
>
> (I'm encouraged that it doesn't seem to do this in the most recent builds, at
> least not for you.  Maybe this was just an aberration in the version I'm 
>using?)

I don't remember.  But I completely fail to understand that setting
`split-height-threshold' and `split-width-threshold' to nil or very
large values can allow `display-buffer' to split a window (unless
there's only one window on the frame).  Which values did you try?

martin