[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs ... new window upon file open

[Paul Rathouz]

Hi Win -- Thank you.  Current, I have recovered my old behavior by doing two things:

1. Toggling the variable dnd-open-file-other-window to nil [it was non-nil before].  That fixed the key problem.  Now files opened from the Finder open as new Frames most often.  Sometimes if there is a frame open on the same Finder desktop [I use multiple desktops], it will open as a new tab in that frame, but it is ok.

2. I then unchecked 'Show Buffers in New Frames'.

For the most part, this gives the behavior that I would like. 

Thank you, Paul

> On Jan 17, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Sorry to be slow to follow up—I didn’t have much time over the past week to work through this.
> 
> With my configuration (Aquamacs 3.2a on Yosemite, Mac OS 10.10.1), with extensive personal configuration, it seems to do what you want if Options->Show Buffers in New Frame is turned on, which I don’t normally do.
> 
> So I tried starting Aquamacs with -q to disable loading my init file. In that case, opening a file from Terminal or Finder opens a new tab in the same window. This is true when Options->Show Buffers in New Frame is not turned on (the default), and is also true after the option is enabled. I suspect there’s a conflict over the priority of opening with in a tab or a new frame, which is not surprising.
> 
> It’s possible that something else in your configuration is interfering with the behavior you want. In a situation like that, I usually try to evaluate parts of my configuration file to narrow it down. It’s unfortunately a little harder to do that with the configuration spread out in the Preferences.el and customization files.
> 
> Not sure that this helps…
> 
> - Win
> 
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:04 PM, Paul Rathouz <rathouz at biostat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All -- Thank you.  This does not appear to work [or at least it does not work like it used to do]. Suppose I am running Aqamacs and have no frames open.  Then, I open a file from the finder.  It used to be that a new frame would open.  Now, I need to issue a command such as
>> 
>> 	switch-to-buffer
>> 
>> to get a frame to open.
>> 
>> Should I be sending this to the aquamacs at googlegroups listserve?
>> 
>> -- pr
>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Iliya Lefterov <iliya.lefterov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Win and Paul
>>> 
>>> In my experience Options>Show Buffers in New Frame has never worked and almost always the new buffer does not display the first time; if I open the file again it appears in the same frame. I didn’t try elisp. And I don’t think it is Yosemite issue.
>>> 
>>> best,
>>> 
>>> Iliya
>>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Paul Rathouz <rathouz at biostat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi -- I recently upgraded to Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite and to Aquamacs 3.2.  Now, when I "open"  a file [e.g. a text file] from Terminal or double click on it in the Finder, it opens a buffer in Aquamacs, but that buffer either does not initially display at all or if it does is included as a 2nd window [in the emacs sense] of an existing frame. I would prefer that all new files opened from the Finder display in a new frame [in the emacs sense], i.e., a new window in the OSX sense.  Any guidance on this? -- pr
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, Paul.
>>>> 
>>>> To do it from the menu: selection Options->Show Buffers in New Frames
>>>> 
>>>> To do it as elisp: (setq ns-pop-up-frames t)
>>>> 
>>>> Does that do what you want?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Win Treese
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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Paul Rathouz, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
K6/446 CSC, Box 4675
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-4675
608.263.1706