From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User option dnd-open-file-other-window has no effect Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:09:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <433F93D7.2000809@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128318544 28209 80.91.229.2 (3 Oct 2005 05:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 07:48:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMJB4-0000RJ-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:47:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMJB3-0004CK-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMJ0D-00024C-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMJ0A-00022r-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:36:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMIxw-0000tl-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EMIZw-0005LC-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EMIZw-0005fw-D9; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:09:32 -0400 Original-To: Sven Joachim In-reply-to: <433F93D7.2000809@web.de> (message from Sven Joachim on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:01:27 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43481 Archived-At: There is a user option, dnd-open-file-other-window, which should control the behaviour of drag-n-dropping files onto an Emacs frame. I customized it to t... However, that had no effect. :-( If the code in x-dnd-drop-data is going to always bind this variable, then it is useless to make it customizable. There are two cases: dropping in a specific window, and dropping elsewhere on the frame. Perhaps we should change one of those two cases NOT to bind dnd-open-file-other-window, or change it somehow. Which is the case that you want to customize?