Setting Emacs to Split Buffers Side-by-Side

Question

A lot of Emacs functions automatically split the screen. However, they all do so such that the windows are one on top of the other. Is there any way to make them split such that they are side-by-side by default instead?

Answer 1

(setq split-height-threshold nil) (setq split-width-threshold 0) 

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual: Choosing Window Options