how to open file window in Emacs

how to open file window in Emacs

[jsyuk 86]

Hello

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?
Thanks


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Re: how to open file window in Emacs

[tomas]

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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:00:05AM -0500, jsyuk 86 wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 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.

Wait a minute: I don't know if I understand you correctly:

 - you chose "open file" in the menu
 - what happens now? (for me, a file select dialog appears)
 - I then select a file
 - the contents of the file appears in the current "window"

Is that OK?

> How to solve the issue?

We can try to answer that question when we understand it better.
Try to describe (a) what happens and (b) what you expect to happen.

Thanks and happy hacking!
- -- tomás
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RE: how to open file window in Emacs

[Drew Adams]

> 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