From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:51:03 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB64A77.1080200@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320569480 9469 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2011 08:51:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 08:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: paddy@paddymullen.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 09:51:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMyRd-00073X-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:51:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMyRc-0001Xe-OX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMyRY-0001XY-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMyRX-0000i8-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:60582) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMyRW-0000hy-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Nov 2011 08:51:05 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-58-45.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.58.45]) [62.47.58.45] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 06 Nov 2011 09:51:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+s/U8ObKusCQkHU0MxjvniX4MUeEfLdOSW6mnXiS RiJQWHbYpnXOpE User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-References: CAFpY3uc5cgZMRH_RJuh855MNijkqBLSG03m+o3RQJ96oz0HCGw@mail.gmail.com X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 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:82768 Archived-At: > I'm having a very hard time understanding the documentation for > display-buffer-alist. emacs24 behaves differently than emacs23. Here > is the behaviour that I am used to and would like to return to. > > Emacs 23: > C-x C-f (find-file) > the file that I select opens in the current window > > > Emacs 24: > C-x C-f (find-file) > the file that I select opens in another window With emacs -Q the file is not shown in another window on my machine. So please report this as a bug either using emacs -Q or by providing us the relevant details from your .emacs. > the window that the file will open in, in emacs 24 is unpredictable, > making it very difficult to organize a multiple window session. Please describe in the bug report what and how this happens. > Could someone please post the setq command to get emacs 24 to behave the way I am used to. Emacs 24 should behave as Emacs 23 in the example you gave. So there should be no need for such a command. martin