[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs and Spaces

[prathouz at uchicago.edu]

One other behavior that is sub-optimal is the following: When a new file 
is opened from the finder , Aquamacs will open that file in the current 
"Space".  That is great.  But, it will switch you do a Space with an 
exising Aquamacs frame. Then, it is necessary to change back to the index 
Space to work on the just-opened file.  This did not occur in the version 
2.0 that is the standard download, but does in this nightly. -- pr

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, prathouz at uchicago.edu wrote:

> David --
>
> Thanks. OK. I found 'dnd-open-file-other-window' It works as expected *if* 
> the currently open frame contains at least one file buffer. But, if it only 
> contains, say, a *scratch* buffer and a dired buffer, then it opens the file 
> as a new tab in the existing frame.  It would be nice to have it open in a 
> new frame regardless, or at least if any buffer visiting a file or a 
> directory is open.
>
> -- pr
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:02 AM, <prathouz at uchicago.edu> 
>> <prathouz at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just downloaded the nightly build and this behavior (a new frame when a 
>>> new file is opened from the finder) does not seem to have survived.  I 
>>> would very much like to have it maintained because I tend to open files 
>>> from Finder when they represent a different project in my workflow ... 
>>> hence I want them in different frames and maybe even in different "Spaces" 
>>> on my desktop.  On the other hand, when I am working on a given project, I 
>>> am most likely to open other files in the same or close-by diretories, so 
>>> it is easy and natural to do this from within Emacs and put those buffers 
>>> in the same frame, taking advantage of the tabs nicely implemented in 
>>> Aquamacs.
>> 
>> We do have a configuration variable for this - see here: 
>> http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
>> 
>> Let me know if you succeed in configuring it to your needs.
>> 
>> - David
>
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Paul Rathouz, Assoc. Professor of Biostatistics           ph 773-834-1970
Dept. of Health Studies, Rm. W-264                       fax 773-702-1979
University of Chicago                               prathouz at uchicago.edu
5841 S. Maryland Ave. MC 2007
Chicago, IL 60637
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