Re: HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF?

[Bruce Korb <Bruce.Korb@gmail.com>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     "anyone", I would hope :).  Perhaps I was mistaken.  I thought
>     these incantations were constrained to setting buffer local
>     variable values.
> 
> Yes, but there are variables whose values can get evaluated by Emacs
> commands.  That's the motive for this feature: to make sure those
> variables don't get set by some file to a malicious value.

And the net result is a loss of usability because at least I do not
appreciate being interrupted from my work to answer "are you sure"
questions on files I open and close a fair amount.  The "you've never
set this kind of variable before, do you really want to do that?!?!?!"
question is a nuisance because I don't really want to enumerate
everything, but this one is a bigger hassle.  Perhaps add something
like:

/*
 * Local Variables:
 * .....
 * user-approves-of-everything: bkorb
 * End:
 */

and then just not ask questions of "bkorb" would take care of this?

Anyway, today's question has to do with some other setting that is
not readily solved with googling for

   emacs "does not run" in "separate window"

I can, in fact, C-x 5 2 and create another window and then Alt-F4
kill off the original window, but I'd rather have (emacs &) simply
spawn another window.  There must be some setting that changed, but
there sure is no obvious setting that I know about.  Disabling the
"~/.emacs" config file has no effect.  Googling got me to someone
suggesting a different OS/X binary, but nothing else of interest.
What should I be looking for?  Thank you - Bruce


P.S.  In case it helps, .Xdefaults:

Emacs.font:         7x13
Emacs.BorderWidth:  0
Emacs.geometry:     81x100
Emacs.MenuBar:      off
Emacs.ToolBar:      off
Emacs.VerticalScrollBars:   left

But none of this has changed in the last couple of weeks