Re: deciding how windows split

[Thorsten Jolitz]

david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> I like my 'normal' behavior, where any command that creates a new
> window (like 'grep') opens the new window under where my current
> window is.
>
> I recently got a new monitor, a very wide one, and I have my emacs
> stretched out some. Now new windows are opening to the right of the
> current one.
>
> Is there some way to force emacs to continue to open new windows under
> my current one.
>
> I tried using customize-apropos on words that sounded like they might
> be what I wanted, but can't find anything like that.

maybe 

M-x customize-variable RET split-window-preferred-function

?

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cheers,
Thorsten