Oops,  I didn&#39;t think this had posted the first time, sorry for the double post.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Paddy Mullen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:paddy@paddymullen.com">paddy@paddymullen.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;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.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Emacs 23:</div><div>C-x C-f  (find-file)   </div><div>the file that I select opens in the current window</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Emacs 24:</div><div>C-x C-f (find-file)</div><div>the file that I select opens in another window</div>

<div><br></div><div>the window that the file will open in, in emacs 24 is unpredictable, making it very difficult to organize a multiple window session.</div><div><br></div><div>Could someone please post the setq command to get emacs 24 to behave the way I am used to.</div>

<div><br></div><div>something along the lines of</div><div><br></div><div>(setq display-buffer-alist &#39;(??????))</div><div><br></div><div>all the other examples that I have seen use functions like setcar, setcdr which don&#39;t help me since my display-buffer-alist is nil.  </div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Paddy</div>
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