From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: jsyuk 86 <jsyuk86@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: how to open file window in Emacs
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 07:39:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed89903a-b627-4ca8-baa3-6c25251bcb30@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGwf5mNz3S7ZsHV0QuPK6MnyWTJN+F-KgQx0g-TiffKFer-n2g@mail.gmail.com>
> When I clicked the "Open File" in File menu, new window was not opened.
> Only I have to type the file name in the bottom command line.
> How to solve the issue?
That's the design. In Emacs, `Open File' means create a buffer
with the name of an _existing_ file (not with no name).
Buffers in Emacs are named, and `Open File' creates a buffer
that visits an existing file, whose name you must provide.
Even `New File' requires that you first provide a file name.
It creates a buffer that is intended, by default, for saving
to a file. (However, you _need not_ ever save it to a file.)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-03/msg00629.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-10/msg00555.html
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2016-12-08 15:00 how to open file window in Emacs jsyuk 86
2016-12-08 15:30 ` tomas
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