From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change buffer in other frame, multiple monitors Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 16:25:06 +0200 Message-ID: <874mmwpynx.fsf@web.de> References: <06e2726d-4e00-4fb6-bfa3-0f272a652796@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432823183 26076 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2015 14:26:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 14:26:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 16:26:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxyl5-0003Uh-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 16:26:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxyl5-0001yq-2O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxykg-0001su-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxykb-0002dg-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yxykb-0002dD-5k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YxykW-00037J-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 16:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-178-010-202-012.178.010.pools.vodafone-ip.de ([178.10.202.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 16:25:32 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-178-010-202-012.178.010.pools.vodafone-ip.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 16:25:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-178-010-202-012.178.010.pools.vodafone-ip.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AocBjSAYm3fzWN4Sp/WPWv5ZJQg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104633 Archived-At: Sam Halliday writes: > (setq display-buffer--other-frame-action > '((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-pop-up-frame) > (reusable-frames . t) (inhibit-same-window . t))) That makes the thing reuse a frame only when there is a window already displaying the buffer - see doc of `display-buffer-reuse-window'. This is seemingly not what you want. What do you want instead: that a random window in a random frame is selected and forced to display the buffer? Michael.