Re: Prefer to split along the longest edge

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:41:19 +0100
> Cc: nicolas.despres@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>  > Sorry, I lost you: what does display-buffer-pop-up-window have to do
>  > with the subject of this thread?  I'm probably missing something.
> 
> 'display-buffer-pop-up-window' calls 'window--try-to-split-window' which
> calls 'split-window-preferred-function' whose default value is
> 'split-window-sensibly' - the function whose behavior we are talking
> about here.  Presently, this is the only way 'split-window-sensibly'
> gets called in the Emacs sources.

And I'm saying my understanding of the feature request here was that
each such splitting will behave as the OP asked: try to split
horizontally first.  The user option that is being proposed will
control this behavior and allow to toggle between the current and the
new behavior.