Re: change buffer in other frame, multiple monitors

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

I've updated the below with the newer display-buffer-alist approach with

  (setq display-buffer-alist
        '((".*" display-buffer-reuse-window (reusable-frames . t))
          (".*" display-buffer-pop-up-frame (inhibit-switch-frame . t))))

The reuse-window entry seems to reproduce the behaviour of the legacy setting I was using.

I have added a display-buffer-pop-up-frame entry as per the documentation for display-buffer but it seems to be ignored.

Is my syntax perhaps incorrect? Maybe there should only be one ".*"?



On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 15:16:27 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a setup with multiple monitors and when using Emacs I have a frame in each monitor.
> 
> I recently asked a question on this list and the solution was to set
> 
>   (setq-default display-buffer-reuse-frames t)
> 
> so that 'next-error would not popup a new window (when the window was already open in a new frame).
> 
> That worked great! I've recently been extending my use of basic emacs commands to include the commands under `C-x 5 ...` (i.e. the "do in the other frame" commands)
> 
> However, when I type `C-x 5 b` and select a buffer name, I am expecting the buffer to be shown in the other frame. But instead, the buffer is opened in a new frame.
> 
> It would appear that setting 'display-buffer-reuse-frames is not enough to force re-use of existing frames and this function is popping up a new one.
> 
> Is there something else I must do to re-use frames? I note that display-buffer-reuse-frames is deprecated, but I'm not entirely sure how to migrate to the new world.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sam