Terminator

Vertical/Horizontal split behavior

Asked by Carlos Galisteo de Cabo

 Hello.

 I'm a bit confused about some terminator behaviors. IMHO Vertical/Horizontal split feature is reversed.
 'Split Vertically' should show one terminal at the left of the axis and the other one at it's right.
 Consequently 'Horizontally' should provide an up/down splitted terminal, since 'vertical/horizontal' refers to the symmetry axis.

 That's how other programs (like vim's 'vnew') works, and the expected behavior for every people I've asked to.

 I think this should be considered a bug, but I prefer to ask here before, just in case It's based on some criteria different from symmetry.

 Thank you.

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Chris Jones (cmsj) said : 		#1

I agree it's confusing, but I'm not sure if the other way is better - we currently match with the emacs way of splitting rather than the vim way. if we switch, it will just confuse a different group of people (and our existing users).

I'm still prepared to consider it before 1.0 is released though.

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Carlos Galisteo de Cabo (cgalisteo) said : 		#2

How can you trust in emacs way of doing stuff? :P

Anyway, I've been arguing with some emacs users, and their point seems to be: by splitting the horizontal axis you get two 'vertical' half-sized buffers. It looks like some people thinks about splitting axis while other people (like me) thinks about splitting buffers.

 I still think the other way is less confusing, and more accurate to the menu entry "Split Vertically" (and not "Split vertical Axis"), and my vote goes to reversing it in 1.0 but now I see this could be a matter of interpretation (as well as a mess for existing satisfied users).

 Thank you for the answer.