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

Answer 1

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

is what i had to use to get the desired behaviour (no horizontal splitting)