Change horizontal to vertical splits?

[703designs]

I generally prefer horizontal splits to vertical splits. Is there a
way to take two open, horizontal splits and show them as verticals
instead?

[Gary Johnson]

:help CTRL-W_K

and scroll up to the preceding paragraph which introduces that
family of commands.

You can also precede a command that performs a split with ":vert" to
make the split open vertically.

:help :vert

Regards,
Gary

[Charles Campbell]

Here's how to switch between the two following two layouts:

If you have vertically arranged windows, one atop another:
windo wincmd H

If you have horizontally arranged windows, one beside another:
windo wincmd K

Regards,
Chip Campbell

[fritzophrenic]

On Dec 17, 1:14 pm, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spk.agilent.com> wrote:
>
> You can also precede a command that performs a split with ":vert" to
> make the split open vertically.
>
>    :help :vert
>

It only works in one special case (the :diffsplit command) but also
see :help 'diffopt' where it explains the "vertical" option.

[Gary Johnson]

Did you really mean to write that :vert _only_ works as a prefix to
:diffsplit? That's not true. It works as a prefix to several
commands including :new, :split, :sfind and :help, to name a few.

Regards,
Gary