Thanks for the help. The problem was with display-buffer-for-wide-screen.el
> I'm having a very hard time understanding the documentation for> display-buffer-alist. emacs24 behaves differently than emacs23. HereWith emacs -Q the file is not shown in another window on my machine. So
> 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
please report this as a bug either using emacs -Q or by providing us the
relevant details from your .emacs.Please describe in the bug report what and how this happens.
> the window that the file will open in, in emacs 24 is unpredictable,
> making it very difficult to organize a multiple window session.
Emacs 24 should behave as Emacs 23 in the example you gave. So there
> Could someone please post the setq command to get emacs 24 to behave the way I am used to.
should be no need for such a command.
martin