Kirill M. Katsnelson wrote: The mswindows-specific drop code in mouse-mswindows-drop used to do something like: (let (window (event-window event)) ... (cond (window (select-window (window))) (switch-to-buffer (find-file-noselect file)) ... to behave as Kirill describes. This was lost in the tidying up of the dnd code. The new generic code does: (pop-to-buffer (find-file-noselect file)) Oliver, is there any reason why doing the former would be a bad thing in the new generic code? Jonathan. -- Jonathan Harris | jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk London, England | Jonathan-Harris(a)psion.com