Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open

[Francis Moreau]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
> Francis Moreau writes:
>   > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> 
> wrote:
>   > >  If you can't find anything in the Emacs info node, then send a bug
>   > >  report (from Help menu) in which you ask to add customisation to set
>   > >  a preference for vertical or horizontal splitting.
>   > >
>   >
>   > I couldn't have found anything revelant.
>   >
>   > I'll send a bug report if nothing interesting can come up from this 
> thread.
>
>  Bastien has already answered your question:
>
>
>  M-x customize-variable RET split-window-preferred-function RET
>
>  and select the value "horizontally".

Ah yes but I tried it and it fails because I'm using emacs 22.1 and
I'm not able to upgrade emacs on this machine.

>
>  I don't know where the docstring he quoted is from because this option seems 
> to
>  only be in Emacs 23.0.60 in the CVS repository and will not be part of the 
> next
>  release (22.2).
>

So I guess there's no way to do so in my case.

thanks
-- 
Francis