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How can I make vertical splitting the default instead of horizontal splitting in Emacs?
My use case: I want to compare a Python file with an older revision of itself from the svn-repository, I do this with the C-x v ~ command. Unfortunately this always opens a second buffer while splitting the window horizontally. Vertically would be much better (at least for PEP-8 compliant files ;)).
See the answers to the question Setting Emacs Split to Horizontal and do the opposite.
Taking offby1‘s answer and inverting it gives you: