Re: Why does Emacs make it difficult for me to have two frames open thesame buffer?

[Kevin Tran <hekevintran@gmail.com>]

I didn't know how else to explain what I was seeing. It turns out that this is a feature of ido-mode. The defaults for "Ido Default Buffer Method" and "Ido Default File Method" are "Raise frame if already shown".

On Apr 13, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

>> I have 2 frames. I switch the buffer in first frame to buffer 
>> A. When I try to switch the buffer in the second frame to 
>> buffer A, Emacs brings the first frame forward. What I want 
>> is to open buffer A in both frames. Is there a setting that 
>> makes Emacs bring the other frame forward when buffer A is 
>> already opened in it?
> 
> You don't give enough info to understand your situation.  It doesn't sound like
> you are starting from `emacs -Q', so I suspect some setting in your init file or
> your `custom-file' is determining the behavior you see.
> 
> Try from `emacs -Q', and if you still see the problem, give us a recipe, step by
> step.  If not, then try to narrow down your init file to discover what is
> causing that behavior.
> 
> When I do this, I see no such behavior:
> 
> emacs -Q
> 
> `C-x 5 2' to get another frame.
> 
> `C-x C-f foo.el' in one frame.
> 
> `C-x b f TAB RET' in the other frame.
> 
>