GNU bug report logs - #9350
23.3; [usability] File menu should contain "split window horizontally C-x 3"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: arne_bab <at> web.de

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:58:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.3

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 9350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9350: 23.3; File menu should contain "split window horizontally C-x 3"
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:54:29 +0200

I'd eventually want to rename `split-window' to `new-window' or
`make-new-window' and give it a fourth argument - the buffer to show in
the new window.  Presumably, more than 90% of all calls of
`split-window' are made to display another buffer in the new window, so
doing a `set-window-buffer' with the old window's buffer doesn't strike
me as very reasonable.

Alternatively, we could try to show the current buffer in the new window
as `make-frame' does but I'm not very fond of such a solution and it
certainly would break things in a number of cases.

martin
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