Subject: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:33:42 +0100

> But now this list of files is displayed somewhere else - on the top of the
 > side window.  Thus now this list is as far for minibuffer as possible.
 > This is because `dired-pop-to-buffer' doesn't call `split-window' anymore
 > that used to split windows vertically even on a wide-screen display.
 >
 > This is the same problem as I reported in
 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/93011/focus=94236
 > i.e. we need a special option to split windows vertically
 > where necessary.

But that's what `split-width-threshold' is meant for.  Does
`dired-pop-to-buffer' DTRT when you set this to nil?

martin