From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Francis Moreau" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change the default behaviour when 2 files are open Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:17:45 +0100 Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0803070017icb66a9av38eb78c95c4a3d1d@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b2ab8a0803060643l3e4ed90n3a9fa688187778d9@mail.gmail.com> <89FD5AC2-8AC1-4646-A20F-1347584257F4@Web.DE> <38b2ab8a0803061304n5ad2074cvc5103f349b691dcd@mail.gmail.com> <18384.25918.2128.237860@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204881072 11600 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 09:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org To: "Nick Roberts" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 10:11:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXYc2-0002fr-9g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Ah yes but I tried it and it fails because I'm using emacs 22.1 and I'm not able to upgrade emacs on this machine. > > I don't know where the docstring he quoted is from because this option seems to > only be in Emacs 23.0.60 in the CVS repository and will not be part of the next > release (22.2). > So I guess there's no way to do so in my case. thanks -- Francis